Yes, you can really feel that in the story. Especially his reaction to the Dying Times. He didn't know what happened and he's so angry about that, but also sad and depressed. Because you know, if it had been up to him he never would have left Narnia (Aslan grrrr) and he'd made some contingency plans in case he died or something....

Do you think there weren't any contingency plans? Or maybe they just failed because of you know, the whole world invading Narnia after they left?