‘I shall give you your directions — have another biscuit?’

‘No, thank you,’ said Alice: ‘one’s quite enough!’

‘Thirst quenched, I hope?’ said the Queen.

Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did not wait for an answer, but went on. ‘At the end of three yards I shall repeat them — for fear of your forgetting them. At the end of four, I shall say good-bye. And at the end of five, I shall go!’

She had got all the pegs put in by this time, and Alice looked on with great interest as she returned to the tree, and then began slowly walking down the row.

At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said,