← ‘It’s a Cheshire cat,’ said the Duchess, ‘and that’s why. 🔊
← ‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’ 🔊
← ‘I thought it would,’ said the Cat, and vanished again. 🔊
← As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree. 🔊
← ‘All right,’ said the Cat; 🔊
← it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself ‘It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.’ 🔊
← ‘How are you getting on?’ said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with. 🔊
← The Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared. 🔊
← ‘How do you like the Queen?’ said the Cat in a low voice. 🔊
← ‘Who are you talking to?’ said the King, going up to Alice, and looking at the Cat’s head with great curiosity. 🔊