“’Ere? Wot‘s it all about?” began the door.keeper, but no ne took any notice of him. Two of Caspian’s men stepped hrough the postern and after some struggling with bars nd bolts (for everything was rusty), flung both wings of the ate wide open. Then the King and his followers strode into he courtyard. Here a number of the governor‘s guards were unging about and several more (they were mostly wiping heir mouths) came tumbling out of various doorways. hough their armour was in a disgraceful condition, these ere fellows who might have fought if they had been led or ad known what was happening; so this was the dangerous oment. Caspian gave them no time to think.
“Where is the captain?” he asked.
“I am, more or less, if you know what I mean,” said a nguid and rather dandified young person without any rmour at all.