The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Well, now you have," said Jill. "I say, Scrubb, isn't it all simply too exciting and
scrumptious for words." She had forgotten all about the signs and the lost Prince for the
moment.
"Oh! That's what you think, is it?" said Scrubb: and then, after a pause, "I wish to
goodness we'd never come."
"Why on earth?"
"I can't bear it," said Scrubb. "Seeing the King Caspian - a doddering old man like that.
It's - it's frightful."
"Why, what harm does it do you?"
"Oh, you don't understand. Now that I come to think of it, you couldn't. I didn't tell you
that this world has a different time from ours."
"How do you mean?"
"The time you spend here doesn't take up any of our time. Do you see? I mean, however
long we spend here, we shall still get back to Experiment House at the moment we left it
-"
"That won't be much fun."
"Oh, dry up! Don't keep interrupting. And when you're back in England - in our world -
you can't tell how time is going here. It might be any number of years in Narnia while
we're having one year at home. The Pevensies explained it all to me, but, like a fool, I
forgot about it. And now apparently it's been about seventy years Narnian years - since I
was here last. Do you see now? And I come back and find Caspian an old, old man."
"Then the King was an old friend of yours!" said Jill. A horrid thought had struck her.
"I should jolly well think he was," said Scrubb miserably. "About as good a friend as a
chap could have. And last time he was only a few years older than me. And to see that
old man with a white beard, and to remember Caspian as he was the morning we captured
the Lone Islands, or in the fight with the Sea Serpent - oh, it's frightful. It's worse than
coming back and finding him dead."
"Oh, shut up," said Jill impatiently. "It's far worse than you think. We've muffed the first
Sign." Of course Scrubb did not understand this. Then Jill told him about her
conversation with Aslan and the four signs and the task of finding the lost prince which
had been laid upon them.