"Sharp's the word," said Peter, and all four children made off through the door at the far end of the room--but when they had got out beyond the next room and into the library, they suddenly heard noises ahead of them, and realized their pursuer must be coming up the back stairs instead of the front stairs as they had expected. And after that, they seemed to find themselves being followed everywhere, even into the Wardrobe Room itself, so that the children found they had no choice but to bundle inside the wardrobe and sit panting in the dark.

But gradually, Susan said that it was awfully cold inside the wardrobe, and Peter discovered an entire branch sticking into his back, and the four children pressed just a little further into the wardrobe--which was now an entire forest--and stood staring about themselves in awe until Edmund exclaimed, "Oh bother! The goose has followed us here!"