Meanwhile Caspian’s speech， helped perhaps by some magic of the island， was having just the effect he intended. A good many who had been anxious enough to get out of the voyage felt quite differently about being left out of it. And of course whenever any one sailor announced that he had made up his mind to ask for permission to sail， the ones who hadn‘t said this felt that they were getting fewer and more uncomfortable. So that before the half.hour was nearly over several people were positively “sucking up” to Drinian and Rhince （at least that was what they called it at my school） to get a good report. And soon there werenly three left who didn’t want to go， and those three were ying very hard to persuade others to stay with them. And ery shortly after that there was only one left. And in the nd he began to be afraid of being left behind all on his own nd changed his mind.
