← There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! 🔊
← She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: 🔊
← As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking. 🔊
← ‘How queer it seems,’ Alice said to herself, ‘to be going messages for a rabbit! 🔊
← Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, 🔊
← and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. 🔊
← Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; 🔊
← ‘Did you say “What a pity!”?’ the Rabbit asked. 🔊
← and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other. 🔊
← ‘No, they’re not,’ said the White Rabbit, ‘and that’s the queerest thing about it.’ (The jury all looked puzzled.) 🔊