Adventure in NARNIA (47)

Adventure in NARNIA (47)

"Just as if any of us would want to waste half the morning trailing round with a crowd of strange grown-ups ! "  said Edmund, and the other three thought the same.  
That was how the adventures began for the third time.

A few morning later Peter and Edmund were looking at the suit of armour and wondering if they could take it to bits when the two girls rushed into the room sand said, " Look out ! Here comes the Macready and a whole gang with her. "

" Sharp's the word, " said Peter, and all four made off through the door at the far end of the room.
But when they had got out into the Green Room and beyond it, into the library, they suddenly heard voice ahead of them, and realized that Mrs Macready must bringing her party of sightseers up the back stairs ー instead of up the front stairs as they had expected.

And after that ー whether it was that they lost their heads, or that Mrs Macready was trying to catch them, or some magic in the house had come to life and was chasing them into Narnia ー they seemed to find themselves being followed everywhere, until at last Susan said, " Oh, bother those trippers ! Here ー Let's go into the Wardrobe Room till they've passed. No one will follow us in there. "

But the moment they were inside they heard the voices in the passage ーand then someone fumbling at the door ー and then they saw the handle turning.

" Quick ! " said Peter.
" There's nowhere else, " and flung open the wardrobe.
All four of them bundled inside it and sat there, panting, in the dark.
Peter held the door closed but did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never, never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

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Into the forest

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