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They went across the lawn and then through an orchard and so to the North Gate of Cair Paravel，which stood wide open. Inside，they found a grassy courtyard. Lights were already showing from the windows of the great hall on their right and from a more complicated mass of buildings straight ahead. Into these the Owl led them，and there a most delightful person was called to look after Jill. She was not much taller than Jill herself，and a good deal slenderer，but obviously full grown，graceful as a willow，and her hair was willowy too，and there seemed to be moss in it. She brought Jill to a round room in one of the turrets，where there was a little bath sunk in the floor and a fire of sweet-smelling woods burning on the flat hearth and a lamp hanging by a silver chain from the vaulted roof. The window looked west into the strange land of Narnia，and Jill saw the red remains of the sunset still glowing behind distant mountains. It made her long for more adventures and feel sure that this was only the beginning.
When she had had her bath，and brushed her hair，and put on the clothes that had been laid out for her—they were the kind that not only felt nice，but looked nice and smelled nice and made nice sounds when you moved as well—she would have gone back to gaze out of that exciting window，but she was interrupted by a bang on the door.
“Come in,”said Jill. And in came Scrubb，also 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.”
