not that our lives would be very long;

.

"One word, Ma'am. All you've have been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. So I won't deny any of waht you sais. But there's one more thing to be said, even so.

Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is taht, in that case, the made-up thing seem a good deal more important than the real ones."