“Well， now you have，” said Jill. “I say， Scrubb， isn’t it all simply too exciting and scrumptious for words？” She had forgotten all about the signs and the lost Prince for the moment.
“Oh！ That‘s what you think， is it？” said Scrubb： and then， after a pause， “I wish to goodness we’d never come.”
“Why on earth？”
“I can‘t bear it，” said Scr ubb. “Seeing the King. Caspian.a doddering old man like that. It’s.it‘s frightful.”
“Why， what harm does it do you？”
“Oh， you don’t understand. Now that I come to think of it， you couldn‘t. I didn’t tell you that this world has a different time from ours.”
“How do you mean？”
“The time you spend here doesn‘t take up any of our time. Do you see？ I mean， however long we spend here， we shall still get back to Experiment House at the moment we left it.”
“That won’t be much fun.”
