They are children again, English children in the countryside, small and young and sent to bed by eight o'clock. Yet there is something else about them, too, which Professor Kirke recognizes and draws out: the knowledge and experience and grace of a lifetime ruling in Narnia that lies sleeping inside them. It appears in the tilt of Susan's head, the confidence in her walk; in Peter and Edmund's long conversations in front of the fire and talent on horseback on the horses Polly has stabled with him for years; in Lucy's bright laughter when she says, "I think He would want us to go outside," on that moonless night when shooting stars arc across the sky.