“So he did， by Jove，” said Peter； “just the sort of thing he would say， too！”
“Worse and worse，” said Mr Beaver， “and the next thing is this. Was he still here when I told you that the place for meeting Aslan was the Stone Table？”
And of course no one knew the answer to this question. “Because， if he was，” continued Mr Beaver， “then she‘llsimply sledge down in that direction and get between us and the Stone Table and catch us on our way down. In fact we shall be cut off from Aslan. ““But that isn’t what she‘ll do first，” said Mrs Beaver， “not if I know her. The moment that Edmund tells her that we’re all here she‘ll set out to catch us this very night， and if he’s been gone about half an hour， she‘ll be here in about another twenty minutes.”
“You’re right， Mrs Beaver，” said her husband， “we must all get away from here. There‘s not a moment to lose.”
In The Witch s House
