← Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; 🔊
← she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; 🔊
← ‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!’ Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: 🔊
← ‘and now for the garden!’ and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, 🔊
← everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← ‘Here! Come and help me out of this!’ (Sounds of more broken glass.) 🔊
← This time there were two little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass. 🔊
← Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table. 🔊