the other world had a separate time of its own

[soso]

But how could it be true, sir?” said Peter.

“Why do you say that?” asked the Professor.

“Well, for one thing,” said Peter,

 “if it was real why doesn’t everyone find this country /every time () they go to the wardrobe? 

I mean, there was nothing there /when we looked;

even Lucy didn’t pretend () there was.”

“What has [that] /to do with it?” said the Professor.

“Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time.”

“Are they?” said the Professor; and Peter did not know quite what to say.

“But there was no time,” said Susan. 

“Lucy had had no time to have gone anywhere, even if there was such a place. 

She came /running after us /the very moment () we were out of the room. 

It was less than a minute, and she pretended [to have been away for hours].”

“That is the very thing //that makes her story so likely to be true,” said the Professor.

 “If there really is a door in this house //that leads /to some other world

 (and I should warn you that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it)

—if, I say, she had got into another world, 

I should not be at all surprised /to find that the other world had a separate time of its own

; so that however long you stayed there it would never take up any of our time. 

On the other hand, I don’t think () many girls of her age would invent that idea /for themselves. 

If she had been pretending, she would have hidden /for a reasonable time /before coming out and telling her story.”

“But do you really mean, sir,” said Peter, “that there could be other worlds

—all over the place, just round the corner—like that?”

“Nothing is more probable,” said the Professor, taking off his spectacles and beginning [to polish them],

 while he muttered /to himself, “I wonder [what they do teach them /at these schools.”

“But what are we to do?” said Susan. She felt that the conversation was beginning [to get off the point].

“My dear young lady,” said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp expression‎ /at both of them, 

“there is one plan //which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.”

“What’s that?” said Susan.

“We might all try [minding our own business],” said he.

And that was the end of that conversation.