← So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. 🔊
← ‘Oh! So Bill’s got to come down the chimney, has he?’ said Alice to herself. 🔊
← Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 🔊
← It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. 🔊
← but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- 🔊
← ‘Exactly so,’ said the Hatter: ‘as the things get used up.’ 🔊
← Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question. 🔊
← ‘Not at all,’ said Alice: ‘she’s so extremely--’ 🔊
← However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- 🔊
← But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time. 🔊