`I hear her footstep, thump,
thump, thump, along the gravel-walk!'
Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen.
`She's grown a good deal!' was her first remark. She had indeed:
when Alice first found her in the ashes, she had been only three
inches high -- and here she was, half a head taller than Alice
herself!
`It's the fresh air that does it,' said the Rose: `wonderfully fine
air it is, out here.'
"I think I'll go and meet her,' said Alice, for, though the flowers
were interesting enough, she felt that it would be far grander to
have a talk with a real Queen.
`You can't possibly do that,' said the Rose: `_I_ should advise you
to walk the other way.'
This sounded nonsense to Alice, so she said nothing, but set off at
once towards the Red Queen. To her surprise, she lost sight of her
in a moment, and found herself walking in at the front-door again.
A little provoked, she drew back, and after looking everywhere for
the queen (whom she spied out at last, a long way off), she thought
she would try the plan, this time, of walking in the opposite
direction.
It succeeded beautifully. She had not been walking a minute before
she found herself face to face with the Red Queen, and full in sight
of the hill she had been so long aiming at.
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