Splash！ Once again it hadn‘t worked. This pool， too， appeared to be only a puddle. Instead of reaching a new world they only got their feet wet and splashed their legs for the second time that morning （if it was a morning： it seems to be always the same time in the Wood between the Worlds）.
“Blast and botheration！” exclaimed Digory. “What’s gone wrong now？ We‘ve put our yellow rings on all right. He said yellow for the outward journey.”