She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little

startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. 🔊 ‘You’re thinking

about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. 🔊 I can’t

tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in

a bit.’ 🔊

‘Perhaps it hasn’t one,’ Alice ventured to remark. 🔊

‘Tut, tut, child!’ said the Duchess. 🔊 ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only

you can find it.’ And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice’s side as

she spoke. 🔊

Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: 🔊 first, because the

Duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the

right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an

uncomfortably sharp chin. 🔊 However, she did not like to be rude, so she

bore it as well as she could. 🔊

‘The game’s going on rather better now,’ she said, by way of keeping up

the conversation a little. 🔊

‘’Tis so,’ said the Duchess: ‘and the moral of that is--“Oh, ’tis love,

’tis love, that makes the world go round!”’ 🔊