← There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: 🔊
← Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 🔊
← The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: 🔊
← ‘Yes, that’s it,’ said the Hatter with a sigh: ‘it’s always tea-time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.’ 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← ‘At any rate I’ll never go there again!’ said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. ‘It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!’ 🔊
← ‘--and I hadn’t begun my tea--not above a week or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--’ 🔊
← ‘--and I hadn’t begun my tea--not above a week or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--’ 🔊
← ‘It began with the tea,’ the Hatter replied. 🔊
← and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, ‘It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.’ 🔊