“Well, he peeled the beastly stuff right off.just as I thought I’d done it myself the other three times, only they hadn‘t hurt.and there it was, lying on the grass: only ever so much thicker, and darker, and more knobbly.looking than the others had been. And there was I as smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than I had been. Then he caught hold of me.I didn’t like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I‘d no skin on.and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found that all the pain had gone from my arm. And then I saw why. I’d turned into a boy again. You‘d think me simply phoney if I told you how I felt about my own arms. I know they’ve no muscle and are pretty mouldy compared with Caspian‘s, but I was so glad to see them.
“After a bit the lion took me out and dressed me.” “Dressed you? With his paws?”
“Well, I don’t exactly remember that bit. But he did somehow or other: in new clothes.the same I‘ve got on now, as a matter of fact. And then suddenly I was back here. Which is what makes me think it must have been a dream.”
“No. It wasn’t a dream,” said Edmund. “Why not?”