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“I’m sorry，Aslan，”said Lucy，getting up and going with him. And for the next half-hour they were busy-she attending to the wounded while he restored those who had been turned into stone. When at last she was free to come back to Edmund she found him standing on his feet and not only healed of his wounds but looking better than she had seen him look-oh，for ages；in fact ever since his first term at that horrid school which was where he had begun to go wrong．He had become his real old self again and could look you in the face．And there on the field of battle Aslan made him a knight．
“Does he know，”whispered Lucy to Susan，“what Aslan did for him ？ Does he know what the arrangement with the Witch really was ？”
“Hush ！ No．Of course not，”said Susan．
“Oughtn’t he to be told ？”said Lucy．
“Oh，surely not，”said Susan．“It would be too awful for him. Think how you’d feel if you were he．”
“All the same I think he ought to know，”said Lucy．But at that moment they were interrupted．
That night they slept where they were．How Aslan provided food for them all I don’t know；but somehow or other they found themselves all sitting down on the grass to a fine high tea at about eight o’clock．Next day they began marching eastward down the side of the great river．And the next day after that，at about teatime，they actually reached the mouth．The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them；before them were the sands，with rocks and little pools of salt water，and seaweed， and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach．And oh，the cry of the sea-gulls ！ Have you heard it ？ Can you remember ？
That evening after tea the four children all managed to get down to the beach again and get their shoes and stockings off and feel the sand between their toes．But next day was more solemn. For then，in the Great Hall of Cair Paravel-that wonderful hall with the ivory roof and the west wall hung with peacock’s feathers and the eastern door which looks towards the sea，in the presence of all their friends and to the sound of trumpets，Aslan solemnly crowned them and led them to the four thrones amid deafening shouts of， “Long Live King Peter ！ Long Live Queen Susan ！ Long Live King Edmund ！ Long Live Queen Lucy ！”
