He'll feel better if she lets him, she's certain-sure of it, and although she thinks longingly of the rose by the lakeshore Susan's not sure if it yet blooms... and if it doesn't, she might well weep over it, the state she's in, which would upset Reepicheep and Caspian both.

"My room, an'ye'd not mind it," she decides. It's lost the menace it had for her before, after all, and with his escort she'll likely be safe from the ka that befell Joe. "But would'ee tell 'Bert and Alain first?"