The story begins on an afternoon when Edmund and ucy were stealing a few precious minutes alone together. nd of course they were talking about Narnia， which was he name of their own private and secret country. Most of s， I suppose， have a secret country but for most of us it is nly an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier han other people in that respect. Their secret country was eal. They had already visited it twice； not in a game or a ream but in reality. They had got there of course by Magic， hich is the only way of getting to Narnia. And a promise， or ery nearly a promise， had been made them in Narnia itself hat they would some day get back. You may imagine that hey talked about it a good deal， when they got the chance. They were in Lucy‘s room， sitting on the edge of her ed and looking at a picture on the opposite wall. It was he only picture in the house that they liked. Aunt Alberta idn’t like it at all （that was why it was put away in a little ack room upstairs）， but she couldn‘t get rid of it becausehad been a wedding present from someone she did notant to offend.
