It was a large room with three big windows， and it was ned from floor to ceiling with books； more books than ucy had ever seen before， tiny little books， fat and dumpy ooks， and books bigger than any church Bible you have ver seen， all bound in leather and smelling old and learned nd magical. But she knew from her instructions that she eed not bother about any of these. For the Book， the agic Book， was lying on a reading.desk in the very middle f the room. She saw she would have to read it standing nd anyway there were no chairs） and also that she would ave to stand with her back to the door while she read it. o at once she turned to shut the door.
It wouldn’t shut.
Some people may disagree with Lucy about this， but think she was quite right. She said she wouldn‘t haveminded if she could have shut the door， but that it was unpleasant to have to stand in a place like that with an open doorway right behind your back. I should have felt just the same. But there was nothing else to be done.