← And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. 🔊
← Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name again!’ 🔊
← The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: ‘There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! 🔊
← Said the mouse to the cur, “Such a trial, dear Sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath.” 🔊
← ‘I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!’ said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. ‘She’d soon fetch it back!’ 🔊
← Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: ‘Dinah’s our cat. 🔊
← Two began in a low voice, ‘Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. 🔊
← So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to--’ At this moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out ‘The Queen! The Queen!’ 🔊