`Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don't smile, my dear, I'm asking
it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watched
just as if you understood it: and when I said "Check!" you purred!
Well, it WAS a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it
hadn't been for that nasty Knight, that came wiggling down among my
pieces. Kitty, dear, let's pretend -- ' And here I wish I could tell
you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite
phrase `Let's pretend.' She had had quite a long argument with her
sister only the say before -- all because Alice had begun with `Let's
pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being very
exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of
them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, `Well, YOU can be
one of them then, and I'LL be all the rest." And once she had really
frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, `nurse!
Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a bone.'
But this is taking us away from Alice's speech to the kitten.
`Let's pretend that you're the Red Queen, Kitty! Do you know, I
think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like
her.
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