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“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—”

“Oh，dry up ！ Don’t keep interrupting. And when you’re back in England—in our world—you can’t tell how time is going here. It might be any number of years in Narnia while we’re having one year at home. The Pevensies explained it all to me，but，like a fool，I forgot about it. And now apparently it’s been about seventy years—Narnian years—since I was here last. Do you see now ？ And I come back and find Caspian an old，old man.”

“Then the King was an old friend of yours ！”said Jill. A horrid thought had struck her.

“I should jolly well think he was,”said Scrubb miserably. “About as good a friend as a chap could have. And last time he was only a few years older than me. And to see that old man with a white beard，and to remember Caspian as he was the morning we captured the Lone Islands，or in the fight with the Sea Serpent— oh，it’s frightful. It’s worse than coming back and finding him dead.”

“Oh，shut up,”said Jill impatiently. “It’s far worse than you think. We’ve muffed the first Sign.”Of course Scrubb did not understand this. Then Jill told him about her conversation with Aslan and the four signs and the task of finding the lost prince which had been laid upon them.

“So you see,”she wound up，“you did see an old friend，just as Aslan said，and you ought to have gone and spoken to him at once. And now you haven’t，and everything is going wrong from the very beginning.”

“But how was I to know ？”said Scrubb.

“If you’d only listened to me when I tried to tell you，we’d be all right,”said Jill.