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Updated: June 28, 2025
'It would be good fun to explore them, wouldn't it? said Calladon. 'Why shouldn't we do it? asked Callia. 'It makes me feel quite lively again to think of it, exclaimed Calladon, springing to his feet. 'Only, he added, 'that is one of the things the Master told us not to do. 'Oh, I don't believe the Master would mind, said Callia. 'Besides, how should he ever know anything about it?
'And it would not make any difference whether we were in Abra or not. 'I should hardly mind even if the lamp were to go out, said Calladon. 'I only care for the lamp because it lets me see you, she answered. 'And because it lets me see myself in the mirror. 'Why should you believe the mirror more than me? asked Callia.
As a general thing, it is easier to see from darkness towards light than from light towards darkness. But there was probably something peculiar about this light and, for the matter of that, about this darkness too. As for Calladon himself, he was one of the best-behaved boys ever known, and he was not less good-looking than he was good.
'You ought not to lose faith in the lamp, answered the Master, 'for it gives you all you have, and all you are. And you ought not to leave Abra, for Abra only is Abracadabra. And you ought not to light a lamp of your own, for it would lead you into darkness. 'Is that all? asked Calladon.
He has gone away. 'Of course, too, it is our own affair, observed Calladon. 'If any harm comes of it, it will be to ourselves, and not to him. 'I am not afraid, said Callia. 'Are you? 'Not in the least. By the way, though, I am not sure that I know the way out of Abra. There doesn't seem to be any door. 'I think I can find the way, if that is all, returned Callia.
'The more I think about it, Callia, said Calladon, 'the surer I am that this must be the real Abra. Could anything be more delightful than this thick air, that you can see as well as breathe; and this floor, all soft and sticky not hard and dry like the other; and these beautiful walls, covered with that curious green stuff; and then the toadstools and the weeds?
It will be according as you treat her. 'Perhaps I had better not have her, said Calladon. 'You must run the risk; for without risk nothing that is really good can be got, replied the Master.
But now that we have a light of our own, it is easy to see that we know almost everything, and by the time we have explored this place, there will be nothing we do not know. 'This mud must be very valuable, said Calladon, after a while; 'for I never saw anything like it before.
'Of course he didn't! because nothing will happen, except that we shall know more than we could know by staying here. He was only trying whether he could frighten you. 'You shall see that I am not so easily frightened, said Calladon. 'I am a man now, and able to take care of myself. Come, let us light a lamp of our own and go. I will show you the way. 'Here is a lamp, said Callia.
They proposed many things, but afterwards rejected them, either because they had done them yesterday, or because they did not find them any longer attractive. 'This is rather a small room, after all, for two people to pass their lives in, remarked Calladon at last. 'Especially when there are two other larger ones outside, added Callia.
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