Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton

Author:Mary Norton [Norton, Mary]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Fantasy, Classics, Childrens, Adventure
ISBN: 9780140304459
Goodreads: 474211
Published: 2013-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

3 In For A Penny

Yes, now they were there “the cupboard was bare!” Oh, it wasn’t that she wasn’t glad to see them; it wasn’t that she wasn’t very kind and had made up that lovely bed for Paul on the sofa in her room. It wasn’t that she didn’t plan delightful picnics to Pepperinge Eye and Lowbody Farm, and the Roman Remains; and read to them at night, and teach them croquet. It was just that she had given up magic. She seemed to have given up for good and all. She seemed to have forgotten that she ever knew it. Right behind the bottled fruits in the larder Paul did once see some pink and blue, which he thought might be the chart of the Zodiac, but he didn’t get a chance to look properly as the door was nearly always kept locked.

All their excitement, all their planning, seemed to have gone for nothing until one day- It was Carey’s job to put the cleaned shoes by each person’s bed at night all ready for morning. About a week after they had arrived, when she had forgotten them the night before, she had to creep down before breakfast to fetch Paul’s shoes from the scullery. As Paul slept on the sofa in Miss Price’s room, it meant that Carey had to open that door very, very quietly so she could slip in without awaking Miss Price. Well, that was the morning when she found Miss Price’s bed had gone.

A faint (the very faintest) film of dust and a pair of quilted slippers marked the place where it had stood. The coverlet was neatly folded on the chest of drawers, and not another thing was out of place. Paul’s clothes lay tidily upon his chair, his sofa stood in its usual corner, but Paul himself was nowhere to be seen.

Carey ran down to the passage to call Charles, and he came with her, slowly and sleepily, to see the empty room. They talked it over. They could hardly believe it.

“I told you it was the bed,” Charles reminded Carey. “I knew it by that piece of rusty screw.” “But behind our backs!” exclaimed Carey. “To have pretended to have given up magic, and then to go and do a thing like this-behind our backs.” As Carey dressed, she grew angrier and angrier. She cleaned her teeth so viciously that she made the gums bleed. She nearly exploded when she heard the bump in Miss Price’s room, and Paul’s cheerful voice asking if there were raspberries for breakfast.

But barely had she and Charles sat down at table when Miss Price appeared, followed by Paul. Miss Price, looking brisk and neat, and not at all out of the ordinary, went straight to the sideboard to serve the porridge. Paul, who looked as if he had dressed hurriedly, sidled into his place. Except for his unbrushed hair and pullover back to front, he, too, looked quite normal. When Miss Price came to

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