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bathed and splendidly dressed in Narnian clothes. But his face didn’t look as if he were enjoying it.
“Oh,here you are at last,”he said crossly,flinging himself into a chair. “I’ve been trying to find you for ever so long.”
“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 Scrubb. “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,w