“Look here， Lu，” said Edmund. “We really can‘t let you do a thing like this. Ask Reep， I’m sure he‘ll say just the same.” “But it’s to save my own life as well as yours，” said Lucy. “I don‘t want to be cut to bits with invisible swords any morethan anyone else.”
“Her Majesty is in the right，” said Reepicheep. “If we had any assurance of saving her by battle， our duty would be very plain. It appears to me that we have none. And the service they ask of her is in no way contrary to her Majesty’s honour， but a noble and heroical act. If the Queen‘s heart moves her to risk the magician， I will not speak against it.”