← and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: 🔊
← It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. 🔊
← And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them. 🔊
← and Alice called out as loud as she could, ‘If you do. 🔊
← so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it. 🔊
← ‘I don’t quite understand you,’ she said, as politely as she could. 🔊
← ‘Not at first, perhaps,’ said the Hatter: ‘but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked.’ 🔊
← Alice could think of nothing else to say but ‘It belongs to the Duchess: you’d better ask her about it.’ 🔊
← ‘That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,’ the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone. 🔊
← This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. 🔊