← 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. 🔊
← and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: 🔊
← ‘If I eat one of these cakes,’ she thought, ‘it’s sure to make some change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.’ 🔊
← ‘The first thing I’ve got to do,’ said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, ‘is to grow to my right size again; 🔊
← ‘I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I’d only been the right size to do it! 🔊
← and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.’ 🔊
← ‘What size do you want to be?’ it asked. 🔊
← ‘Oh, I’m not particular as to size,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.’ 🔊
← It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; 🔊
← ‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’ 🔊