← ‘I’ll put a stop to this,’ she said to herself, and shouted out, ‘You’d better not do that again!’ which produced another dead silence. 🔊
← ‘Are their heads off?’ shouted the Queen. 🔊
← ‘Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!’ the soldiers shouted in reply. 🔊
← ‘That’s right!’ shouted the Queen. ‘Can you play croquet?’ 🔊
← ‘Get to your places!’ shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; 🔊
← and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ about once in a minute. 🔊
← ‘Now, I give you fair warning,’ shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; ‘either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice!’ 🔊
← All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ 🔊
← ‘Then, you know,’ the Mock Turtle went on, ‘you throw the--’ ‘The lobsters!’ shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air. 🔊
← ‘Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. 🔊