← she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. 🔊
← There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; 🔊
← there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; 🔊
← How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; 🔊
← Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: 🔊
← But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. 🔊
← and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table. 🔊