← However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: 🔊
← And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← ‘Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,’ said Alice: ‘three inches is such a wretched height to be.’ 🔊
← (it was exactly three inches high). 🔊
← So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high. 🔊