Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. 🔊 Alice knew it was
the Rabbit coming to look for her, 🔊 and she trembled till she shook the
house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large
as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. 🔊
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; 🔊 but, as
the door opened inwards, and Alice’s elbow was pressed hard against it,
that attempt proved a failure. 🔊 Alice heard it say to itself ‘Then I’ll
go round and get in at the window.’ 🔊
‘That you won’t’ thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied
she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her
hand, and made a snatch in the air. 🔊 She did not get hold of anything,
but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass,
from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a
cucumber-frame, or something of the sort. 🔊
Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit’s--‘Pat! Pat! Where are you?’ 🔊 And
then a voice she had never heard before, ‘Sure then I’m here! Digging