← 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. 🔊
← However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high. 🔊
← Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: 🔊
← So she began: ‘O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!’ 🔊
← She is such a dear quiet thing,’ Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, 🔊
← For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went. 🔊
← It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool-- 🔊
← the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds-- 🔊