“Why， all she wants is to get all four of you （she‘s thinking all the time of those four thrones at Cair Paravel）. Once you were all four inside her House her job would be done.and there’d be four new statues in her collection before you‘d had time to speak. But she’ll keep him alive as long as he‘s the only one she’s got， because she‘ll want to use him as a decoy； as bait to catch the rest of you with.”
“Oh， can no one help us？” wailed Lucy.
“Only Aslan，” said Mr Beaver. “We must go on and meet him. That’s our only chance now.”
“It seems to me， my dears，” said Mrs Beaver， “that it is very important to know just when he slipped away. How much he can tell her depends on how much he heard. For instance， had we started talking of Aslan before he left？ If not， then we may do very well， for she won‘t know that Aslan has come to Narnia， or that we are meeting him， and will be quite off her guard as far as that is concerned.”
“I don’t remember his being here when we were talking about Aslan.” began Peter， but Lucy interrupted him.
“Oh yes， he wa s，” she said miserabl y； “don‘t you remember， it was he who asked whether the Witch couldn’t turn Aslan into stone too？”
