As you see, she had got the order wrong. That wasecause she had given up saying the signs over every night. he still really knew them, if she troubled to think: but he was no longer so “pat” in her lesson as to be sure of eeling them off in the right order at a moment’s notice nd without thinking. Puddleglum‘s question annoyed her ecause, deep down inside her, she was already annoyed ith herself for not knowing the Lion’s lesson quite so well s she felt she ought to have known it. This annoyance, dded to the misery of being very cold and tired, made her ay, “Bother the signs”. She didn‘t perhaps quite mean it. “Oh, that was next, was it?” said Puddleglum. “Now I onder, are you right? Got ’em mixed, I shouldn‘t wonder.
seems to me, this hill, this flat place we’re on, is worthopping to have a look at. Have you noticed.”
“Oh Lor!” said Scrubb. “Is this a time for stopping todmire the view? For goodness‘ sake let’s get on.”