I do wish you'd try to remember that he's an earl now.

Now you and I must take camel and be off.' And now came seven long days of camel travelling, through desert and forest and over hill and through valley, till at last Lucy and Mr.Noah came to the Hidden Place where the oracle is, and where that is I may not tell you--because it's one of the eleven mysteries.

And I must not tell you what the oracle is because that is another of the mysteries.
But I may tell you that if you want to consult the oracle you have to go a long way between rows of round pillars, rather like those in Egyptian tombs.

And as you go it gets darker and darker, and when it is quite dark you see a little, little light a very long way off, and you hear very far away, a beautiful music, and you smell the scent of flowers that do not grow in any wood or field or garden of this earth.

Mixed with this scent is the scent of incense and of old tapestried rooms, where no one has lived for a very long time.