← And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:-- 🔊
← ‘The first thing I’ve got to do,’ said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, ‘is to grow to my right size again; 🔊
← ‘If you knew Time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.’ 🔊
← ‘And be quick about it,’ added the Hatter, ‘or you’ll be asleep again before it’s done.’ 🔊
← Alice could think of nothing else to say but ‘It belongs to the Duchess: you’d better ask her about it.’ 🔊
← and the reason is--’ here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his eyes.--‘Tell her about the reason and all that,’ he said to the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘It’s all about as curious as it can be,’ said the Gryphon. 🔊
← But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time. 🔊
← ‘What do you know about this business?’ the King said to Alice. 🔊
← ‘No, they’re not,’ said the White Rabbit, ‘and that’s the queerest thing about it.’ (The jury all looked puzzled.) 🔊