Alice could think of nothing else to say but ‘It belongs to the Duchess:

you’d better ask her about it.’ 🔊

‘She’s in prison,’ the Queen said to the executioner: ‘fetch her here.’

And the executioner went off like an arrow. 🔊

The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,

by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely

disappeared; 🔊 so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down

looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game. 🔊