"Not for me"said Peter "I'm going to explore in the house."Įveryone agreed to this and that was how the adventures began. And in the meantime we're pretty well off. "Ten to one it'll clear up in an hour or so. They had just finished their breakfast with the Professor and were upstairs in the room he had set apart for them - a long, low room with two windows looking out in one direction and two in another. "Of course it would be raining!" said Edmund. There'll be hawks."īut when next morning came there was a steady rain falling, so thick that when you looked out of the window you could see neither the mountains nor the woods nor even the stream in the garden. Did you see those mountains as we came along? And the woods? There might be eagles. You might find anything in a place like this. "This is going to be a wonderful place for birds. It was a far larger house than she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy. It's about ten minutes' walk from here down to that dining-room, and any amount of stairs and passages in between." "I tell you this is the sort of house where no one's going to mind what we do. "There's sure to be a row if we're heard talking here." "Hadn't we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "And who are you to say when I'm to go to bed? Go to bed yourself." "Trying to talk like Mother," said Edmund. "Like what?" said Susan "and anyway, it's time you were in bed." "Oh, come off it!" said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered. That old chap will let us do anything we like."
"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.Īs soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls' room and they all talked it over. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
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