“Look here，” said Peter， turning on him savagely， “shut up！ You’ve been perfectly beastly to Lu ever since she startedthis nonsense about the wardrobe， and now you go playing games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite.”
“But it‘s all nonsense，” said Edmund， very taken aback.
“Of course it’s all nonsense，” said Peter， “that‘s just the point. Lu was perfectly all right when we left home， but since we’ve been down here she seems to be either going queer in the head or else turning into a most frightful liar. But whichever it is， what good do you think you‘ll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encouraging her the next？”
“I thought.I thought.” said Edmund； but he couldn’tthink of anything to say.
“You didn‘t think anything at all，” said Peter； “it’s just spite. You‘ve always liked being beastly to anyone smaller than yourself； we’ve seen that at school before now.”
“Do stop it，” said Susan； “it won‘t make things any betterhaving a row between you two. Let’s go and find Lucy.”
