Polly is there, and despite both children being in a dreamy haze, they eventually remember what’s happened and make a plan to return home.

Polly doesn’t have a green ring, so Digory realizes he’ll have to rescue her, since his cruel uncle is also too cowardly to do it himself.Īfter Digory puts on the yellow ring, he suddenly finds himself emerging in a light-filled wood with many small ponds. He used the dust to make magical rings-yellow ones to send his experimental subjects to another realm and green ones to bring them back home. Breaking a promise, Uncle Andrew eventually studied magic himself and opened the box, discovering dust from another world. Lefay-who was rumored to have had fairy blood and to have dabbled in dark magics-bequeathed him a little box. When Digory demands to know where Polly has gone, Uncle Andrew tells him a story. As soon as she touches the ring, she suddenly disappears. Uncle Andrew emerges from a chair and frightens the children by locking them in the room, then flatters Polly with the gift of a shining, faintly humming yellow ring. One day, the children accidentally stumble into Uncle Andrew’s study when they think they’re entering a neighbor’s attic. Polly and Digory become friends and spend the summer exploring the interconnected attics of the row houses.

The two children speculate about Digory’s “mad” Uncle Andrew and Andrew’s mysterious study. He’s living with his old, unmarried aunt and uncle, the Ketterleys, because his mother is dying and his father is away in India.

One day, Polly Plummer, a young girl living in a London row house, is surprised to meet a young boy, Digory, who’s moved in next door.

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis