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when Scrubb shook hands with Jill,he said,“So long,Jill. Sorry I’ve been a funk and so ratty. I hope you get safe home,”and Jill said,“So long,Eustace. And I’m sorry I’ve been such a pig.”And this was the first time they had ever used Christian names,because one didn’t do it at school.
The Prince unlocked the door and they all went down the stairs:three of them with drawn swords,and Jill with drawn knife. The attendants had vanished and the great room at the foot of the Prince’s stairs was empty. The grey,doleful lamps were still burning and by their light they had no difficulty in passing gallery after gallery and descending stairway after stairway. The noises from outside the castle were not so easily heard here as they had been in the room above. Inside the house all was still as death,and deserted. It was as they turned a corner into the great hall on the ground floor that they met their first Earthman-a fat, whitish creature with a very piglike face who was gobbling up all