for firewood, so he had part of the timber made into a wardrobe, which he put in his big 
house in the country. And though he himself did not discover the magic properties of that 
wardrobe, someone else did. That was the beginning of all the comings and goings between 
Narnia and our world, which you can read of in other books.
    
    When Digory and his people went to live in the big country house, they took Uncle 
Andrew to live with them; for Digory's Father said, "We must try to keep the old fellow 
out of mischief, and it isn't fair that poor Letty should have him always on her hands." 
Uncle Andrew never tried any Magic again as long as he lived. He had learned his lesson, 
and in his old age he became a nicer and less selfish old man than he had ever been 
before. But he always liked to get visitors alone in the billiard-room and tell them 
stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 
"A devilish temper she had," he would say. "But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine 
woman."
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