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"Thank goodness," said Edmund, "the door must have swung open of its own accord." He
forgot all about Lucy and went towards the light, which he thought was the open door of
the wardrobe. But instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found
himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in
the middle of a wood.
There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the
trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in
the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising,
very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in
that country. There was not even a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood
stretched as far as he could see in every direction. He shivered.
He now remembered that he had been looking for Lucy; and also how unpleasant he had
been to her about her "imaginary country" which now turned out not to have been
imaginary at all. He thought that she must be somewhere quite close and so he shouted,
"Lucy! Lucy! I'm here too-Edmund."
There was no answer.
"She's angry about all the things I've been saying lately," thought Edmund. And though
he did not like to admit that he had been wrong, he also did not much like being alone in
this strange, cold, quiet place; so he shouted again.
"I say, Lu! I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I see now you were right all along. Do come
out. Make it Pax."

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Still there was no answer.
"Just like a girl," said Edmund to himself, "sulking somewhere, and won't accept an
apology." He looked round him again and decided he did not much like this place, and
had almost made up his mind to go home, when he heard, very far off in the wood, a
sound of bells. He listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at last there swept
into sight a sledge drawn by two reindeer.
The reindeer were about the size of Shetland ponies and their hair was so white that even
the snow hardly looked white compared with them; their branching horns were gilded
and shone like something on fire when the sunrise caught them. Their harness was of
scarlet leather and covered with bells. On the sledge, driving the reindeer, sat a fat dwarf
who would have been about three feet high if he had been standing. He was dressed in
polar bear's fur and on his head he wore a red hood with a long gold tassel hanging down
from its point; his huge beard covered his knees and served him instead of a rug. But
behind him, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sledge sat a very different person -
a great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund had ever seen. She also was covered in
white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand in her right hand and wore
a golden crown on her head. Her face was white - not merely pale, but white like snow or
paper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautiful face in other
respects, but proud and cold and stern.

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"Ha!" said the Queen, speaking more to herself than to him. "A door. A door from the
world of men! I have heard of such things. This may wreck all. But he is only one, and he
is easily dealt with." As she spoke these words she rose from her seat and looked Edmund
full in the face, her eyes flaming; at the same moment she raised her wand. Edmund felt
sure that she was going to do something dreadful but he seemed unable to move. Then,
just as he gave himself up for lost, she appeared to change her mind.
"My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, "how cold you look! Come and sit
with me here on the sledge and I will put my mantle round you and we will talk."
Edmund did not like this arrangement at all but he dared not disobey; he stepped on to the
sledge and sat at her feet, and she put a fold of her fur mantle round him and tucked it
well in.
"Perhaps something hot to drink?" said the Queen. "Should you like that?"
"Yes please, your Majesty," said Edmund, whose teeth were chattering.

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The Queen took from somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked
as if it were made of copper. Then, holding out her arm, she let one drop fall from it on
the snow beside the sledge. Edmund saw the drop for a second in mid-air, shining like a
diamond. But the moment it touched the snow there was a hissing sound and there stood
a jewelled cup full of something that steamed. The dwarf immediately took this and
handed it to Edmund with a bow and a smile; not a very nice smile. Edmund felt much
better as he began to sip the hot drink. It was something he had never tasted before, very
sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.
"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would
you like best to eat?"
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund.
The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there
appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to
contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the
very centre and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious. He was quite warm
now, and very comfortable.

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While he was eating the Queen kept asking him questions. At first Edmund tried to
remember that it is rude to speak with one's mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and
thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more
he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so
inquisitive. She got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters, and that one of
his sisters had already been in Narnia and had met a Faun there, and that no one except
himself and his brother and his sisters knew anything about Narnia. She seemed
especially interested in the fact that there were four of them, and kept on coming back to
it. "You are sure there are just four of you?" she asked. "Two Sons of Adam and two
Daughters of Eve, neither more nor less?" and Edmund, with his mouth full of Turkish
Delight, kept on saying, "Yes, I told you that before," and forgetting to call her "Your
Majesty", but she didn't seem to mind now.
At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the
empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more.
Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund
did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it
would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it
till they killed themselves. But she did not offer him any more. Instead, she said to him,
"Son of Adam, I should so much like to see your brother and your two sisters. Will you
bring them to see me?"
"I'll try," said Edmund, still looking at the empty box.

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"There's nothing special about them," said Edmund, "and, anyway, I could always bring
them some other time."
"Ah, but once you were in my house," said the Queen, "you might forget all about thern.
You would be enjoying yourself so much that you wouldn't want the bother of going to
fetch them. No. You must go back to your own country now and come to me another day,
with them, you understand. It is no good coming without them."
"But I don't even know the way back to my own country," pleaded Edmund. "That's
easy," answered the Queen. "Do you see that lamp?" She pointed with her wand and
Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun.
"Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the other way'-
here she pointed in the opposite direction - "and tell me if you can see two little hills
rising above the trees."
"I think I can," said Edmund.
"Well, my house is between those two hills. So next time you come you have only to find
the lamp-post and look for those two hills and walk through the wood till you reach my
house. But remember - you must bring the others with you. I might have to be very angry
with you if you came alone."

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"All right," said Edmund, "I see you were right and it is a magic wardrobe after all. I'll
say I'm sorry if you like. But where on earth have you been all this time? I've been
looking for you everywhere."
"If I'd known you had got in I'd have waited for you," said Lucy, who was too happy and
excited to notice how snappishly Edmund spoke or how flushed and strange his face was.
"I've been having lunch with dear Mr Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White
Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she can't have found out
and perhaps everything is going to be all right after all."
"The White Witch?" said Edmund; "who's she?"
"She is a perfectly terrible person," said Lucy. "She calls herself the Queen of Narnia
though she has no right to be queen at all, and all the Fauns and Dryads and Naiads and
Dwarfs and Animals - at least all the good ones - simply hate her. And she can turn
people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it
is always winter in Narnia - always winter, but it never gets to Christmas. And she drives
about on a sledge, drawn by reindeer, with her wand in her hand and a crown on her
head."
Edmund was already feeling uncomfortable from having eaten too many sweets, and
when he heard that the Lady he had made friends with was a dangerous witch he felt even
more uncomfortable. But he still wanted to taste that Turkish Delight again more than he
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"Who told you all that stuff about the White Witch?" he asked.
"Mr Tumnus, the Faun," said Lucy.
"You can't always believe what Fauns say," said Edmund, trying to sound as if he knew
far more about them than Lucy.
"Who said so?" asked Lucy.
"Everyone knows it," said Edmund; "ask anybody you like. But it's pretty poor sport
standing here in the snow. Let's go home."
"Yes, let's," said Lucy. "Oh, Edmund, I am glad you've got in too. The others will have to
believe in Narnia now that both of us have been there. What fun it will be!"
But Edmund secretly thought that it would not be as good fun for him as for her. He
would have to admit that Lucy had been right, before all the others, and he felt sure the
others would all be on the side of the Fauns and the animals; but he was already more
than half on the side of the Witch. He did not know what he would say, or how he would
keep his secret once they were all talking about Narnia.

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"What's all this about, Ed?" said Peter.
And now we come to one of the nastiest things in this story. Up to that moment Edmund
had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn't
made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all
at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let
Lucy down.
"Tell us, Ed," said Susan.
And Edmund gave a very superior look as if he were far older than Lucy (there was really
only a year's difference) and then a little snigger and said, "Oh, yes, Lucy and I have been
playing - pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true. just for fun,
of course. There's nothing there really."
Poor Lucy gave Edmund one look and rushed out of the room.
Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a
great success, and went on at once to say, "There she goes again. What's the matter with
her? That's the worst of young kids, they always -"

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"Look here," said Peter, turning on him savagely, "shut up! You've been perfectly beastly
to Lu ever since she started this nonsense about the wardrobe, and now you go playing
games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite."
"But it's all nonsense," said Edmund, very taken aback.
"Of course it's all nonsense," said Peter, "that's just the point. Lu was perfectly all right
when we left home, but since we've been down here she seems to be either going queer in
the head or else turning into a most frightful liar. But whichever it is, what good do you
think you'll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encouraging her the next?"
"I thought - I thought," said Edmund; but he couldn't think of anything to say.
"You didn't think anything at all," said Peter; "it's just spite. You've always liked being
beastly to anyone smaller than yourself; we've seen that at school before now."
"Do stop it," said Susan; "it won't make things any better having a row between you two.
Let's go and find Lucy."
It was not surprising that when they found Lucy, a good deal later, everyone could see
that she had been crying. Nothing they could say to her made any difference. She stuck to
her story and said:

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"I don't care what you think, and I don't care what you say. You can tell the Professor or
you can write to Mother or you can do anything you like. I know I've met a Faun in there
and - I wish I'd stayed there and you are all beasts, beasts."
It was an unpleasant evening. Lucy was miserable and Edmund was beginning to feel that
his plan wasn't working as well as he had expected. The two older ones were really
beginning to think that Lucy was out of her mind. They stood in the passage talking about
it in whispers long after she had gone to bed.
The result was the next morning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole
thing to the Professor. "He'll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong
with Lu," said Peter; "it's getting beyond us." So they went and knocked at the study
door, and the Professor said "Come in," and got up and found chairs for them and said he
was quite at their disposal. Then he sat listening to them with the tips of his fingers
pressed together and never interrupting, till they had finished the whole story. After that
he said nothing for quite a long time. Then he cleared his throat and said the last thing
either of them expected:
"How do you know," he asked, "that your sister's story is not true?"
"Oh, but -" began Susan, and then stopped. Anyone could see from the old man's face
that he was perfectly serious. Then Susan pulled herself together and said, "But Edmund
said they had only been pretending."

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"That is a point," said the Professor, "which certainly deserves consideration; very careful
consideration. For instance - if you will excuse me for asking the question - does your
experience lead you to regard your brother or your sister as the more reliable? I mean,
which is the more truthful?"
"That's just the funny thing about it, sir," said Peter. "Up till now, I'd have said Lucy
every time."
"And what do you think, my dear?" said the Professor, turning to Susan.
"Well," said Susan, "in general, I'd say the same as Peter, but this couldn't be true - all
this about the wood and the Faun."
"That is more than I know," said the Professor, "and a charge of lying against someone
whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing
indeed."
"We were afraid it mightn't even be lying," said Susan; "we thought there might be
something wrong with Lucy."
"Madness, you mean?" said the Professor quite coolly. "Oh, you can make your minds
easy about that. One has only to look at her and talk to her to see that she is not mad."

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"That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true," said the Professor. "If
there really a door in this house that leads to some other world (and I should warn you
that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it) - if, I say, she had
got into another world, I should not be at a surprised to find that the other world had a
separate time of its own; so that however long you stay there it would never take up any
of our time. On the other hand, I don't think many girls of her age would invent that idea
for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time
before coming out and telling her story."
"But do you really mean, sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds - all over the
place, just round the corner - like that?"
"Nothing is more probable," said the Professor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to
polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these
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"There's something sticking into my back," said Peter.
"And isn't it cold?" said Susan.
"Now that you mention it, it is cold," said Peter, "and hang it all, it's wet too. What's the
matter with this place? I'm sitting on something wet. It's getting wetter every minute." He
struggled to his feet.
"Let's get out," said Edmund, "they've gone."
"O-o-oh!" said Susan suddenly, and everyone asked her what was the matter.
"I'm sitting against a tree," said Susan, "and look! It's getting light - over there."
"By Jove, you're right," said Peter, "and look there - and there. It's trees all round. And
this wet stuff is snow. Why, I do believe we've got into Lucy's wood after all."
And now there was no mistaking it and all four children stood blinking in the daylight of
a winter day. Behind them were coats hanging on pegs, in front of them were snowcovered
trees.
Peter turned at once to Lucy.
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"Of course," said Lucy, and did.
"And now," said Susan, "what do we do next?"
"Do?" said Peter, "why, go and explore the wood, of course."
"Ugh!" said Susan, stamping her feet, "it's pretty cold. What about putting on some of
these coats?"
"They're not ours," said Peter doubtfully.
"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan; "it isn't as if we wanted to take them out of
the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
"I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No
one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you
found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
They immediately carried out Susan's very sensible plan. The coats were rather too big
for them so that they came down to their heels and looked more like royal robes than
coats when they had put them on. But they all felt a good deal warmer and each thought
the others looked better in their new get-up and more suitable to the landscape.
"We can pretend we are Arctic explorers," said Lucy.
"This is going to be exciting enough without pretending," said Peter, as he began leading
the way forward into the forest. There were heavy darkish clouds overhead and it looked
as if there might be more snow before night.

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"I think Lu ought to be the leader," said Peter; "goodness knows she deserves it. Where
will you take us, Lu?"
"What about going to see Mr Tumnus?" said Lucy. "He's the nice Faun I told you about."
Everyone agreed to this and off they went walking briskly and stamping their feet. Lucy
proved a good leader. At first she wondered whether she would be able to find the way,
but she recognized an oddlooking tree on one place and a stump in another and brought
them on to where the ground became uneven and into the little valley and at last to the
very door of Mr Tumnus's cave. But there a terrible surprise awaited them.
The door had been wrenched off its hinges and broken to bits. Inside, the cave was dark
and cold and had the damp feel and smell of a place that had not been lived in for several
days. Snow had drifted in from the doorway and was heaped on the floor, mixed with
something black, which turned out to be the charred sticks and ashes from the fire.
Someone had apparently flung it about the room and then stamped it out. The crockery
lay smashed on the floor and the picture of the Faun's father had been slashed into shreds
with a knife.
"This is a pretty good wash-out," said Edmund; "not much good coming here."
"What is this?" said Peter, stooping down. He had just noticed a piece of paper which had
been nailed through the carpet to the floor.

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"Is there anything written on it?" asked Susan.
"Yes, I think there is," answered Peter, "but I can't read it in this light. Let's get out into
the open air."
They all went out in the daylight and crowded round Peter as he read out the following
words:
The former occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting
his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of
Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc., also of comforting
her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fraternizing with Humans.
signed MAUGRIM, Captain of the Secret Police, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN
The children stared at each other.
"I don't know that I'm going to like this place after all," said Susan.
"Who is this Queen, Lu?" said Peter. "Do you know anything about her?"
"She isn't a real queen at all," answered Lucy; "she's a horrible witch, the White Witch.
Everyone all the wood people - hate her. She has made an enchantment over the whole
country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas."

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