“Ah! ” croaked the Raven. “It is an old saying: see the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.”
“That's very true, Sallowpad, ” said one of the Dwarfs. “And another is, Come, live with me and you'll know me.”
“Yes, ” said the King. “We have now seen him for what he is: that is, a most proud, bloody, luxurious, cruel, and selfpleasing tryant.”
“Then in the name of Aslan, ” said Susan, “let us leave Tashbaan this very day.”
“There's the rub, sister, ” said Edmund. “For now I must open to you all that has been growing in my mind these last two days and more. Peridan, of your courtesy look to the door and see that there is no spy upon us. All well? So. For now we must be secret.”