England appears at the end of the story as the familiar human world to which Jill and Eustace return, but their return is not simply a resumption of ordinary life. In the grounds of Experiment House, Aslan breaks through the school wall and confronts its bullying culture; though the opening is made whole again, the inquiry that follows brings institutional change. England thus becomes the setting where the adventure’s moral consequences take practical form.

The school grounds and the return

Aslan leads Jill and Eustace through the wood until the wall of Experiment House comes into view. With a roar that makes the sun shake in the sky, he brings down thirty feet of it. Through the gap, the children see the school shrubbery and the gym roof beneath the same dull autumn sky they had seen before their adventures began. The scene sets the extraordinary return against an unchanged landscape: the school looks familiar, but the children arrive with Aslan’s strength and with weapons in hand.

Aslan breathes on Jill and Eustace and touches their foreheads with his tongue. He then lies in the breach, his golden back turned toward England and his face toward his own lands. The gesture marks a boundary between the human country and the world from which the children have returned, even as the opened wall allows the Narnian figures to enter the school’s familiar surroundings.

The confrontation at Experiment House

The gang comes running through the laurels. Its members include Adela Pennyfather, Cholmondely Major, Edith Winterblott, Spotty Sorner, Bannister, and the Garrett twins. Their confidence gives way to terror when they see the broken wall, the great lion in the gap, and Caspian, Jill, and Eustace rushing toward them in glittering clothes with weapons in their hands.

With Aslan’s strength in them, Jill strikes the girls with her crop, while Caspian and Eustace use the flats of their swords against the boys. The bullies flee, crying, “Murder! Fascists! Lions! It isn't fair.” Their protest turns the scene’s moral reversal into an accusation: the gang that had exercised power over others now experiences fear and defeat. The Head arrives but fails to recognize Caspian, Jill, or Eustace; seeing the lion, the broken wall, and the drawn swords, she has hysterics and runs back inside.

Public explanation and lasting change

The Head calls the police with a story about a circus lion and escaped convicts who have broken down walls and carry drawn swords. During the commotion, Jill and Eustace slip indoors and change out of their bright clothes, while Caspian returns to his own world. At Aslan’s word, the wall becomes whole again. The police find neither lion, broken wall, nor convicts, and the Head’s behavior prompts an inquiry.

That inquiry brings to light matters at Experiment House, and about ten people are expelled. The Head’s friends judge her ineffective in her role, arrange for her to become an Inspector, and later place her in Parliament when they find her ineffective there as well. The narrator’s comic account of her career contrasts with the real consequence at the school: after the inquiry, conditions change for the better, and Experiment House becomes quite a good school.

The return’s aftermath

The children carry different traces of the adventure back into ordinary life. Eustace secretly buries his fine clothes in the school grounds one night; Jill smuggles hers home and wears them to a fancy-dress ball the following holidays. These small, contrasting choices preserve the return as a private memory even after the wall has been restored and the public account has failed to explain what happened. Jill and Eustace remain friends, while the school itself is changed for the better.