‘A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know. So you’ll go very quickly through the Third Square — by railway, I should think — and you’ll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, that square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee — the Fifth is mostly water — the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty — But you make no remark?’

‘I — I didn’t know I had to make one — just then,’ Alice faltered out.

‘You should have said, “It’s extremely kind of you to tell me all this” — however, we’ll suppose it said — the Seventh Square is all forest — however, one of the Knights will show you the way — and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it’s