ing to take us north?”

    “to stop you getting impatient, ts  to stand around at tail party being all s and pretty. S making a pet out of you.”

    Lyra turned  alaimon said rue.

    Se life,  le in the canal.

    t kept e and attentive to Mrs. Coulter  tantalizing  Lord Asriel. Perer  married and adopt Lyra, and go and rescue Roger from the Gobblers.

    On ternoon of tail party, Mrs. Coulter took Lyra to a fasiff dark blond ened and le makeup to o so do it. t to collect ter o buy some patent-leat ime to go back to t and c dressed.

    “Not ter as Lyra came out of tiness.

    Lyra aken to tle o keep ter close at er, loosening to a vase, sa Lyra  moving and glanced pointedly at the door.

    “Oer, I do love this bag!”

    “Not indoors, Lyra. It looks absurd to be carrying a sake it off at once, and come and hese glasses....”

    It  so mucone as t made Lyra resist stubbornly. Pantalaimon fleo tantly became a polecat, arc tle his, Lyra said:

    “But it  be in ts t really suits—”

    S finisence, because Mrs. Coulters daemon sprang off talaimon to t before  in alarm, and talaimon ted t, so loosen tered  and s loalaimons ears in ended to tear it off. Not angrily, eit  o feel.

    Lyra sobbed in terror.

    “Dont! Please! Stop ing us!”

    Mrs. Coulter looked up from her flowers.

    “Do as I tell you, then,” she said.

    “I promise!”

    tepped aalaimon as if he were suddenly bored.

    Pantalaimon fled to Lyra at once,