← It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: 🔊
← Alice took up the fan and gloves, 🔊
← and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: 🔊
← she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. 🔊
← Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen-- 🔊
← But I’d better take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.’ 🔊
← She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves. 🔊
← By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: 🔊
← she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. 🔊
← ‘And yet what a dear little puppy it was!’ said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: 🔊