`It's exactly like a riddle with no
answer!' she thought.
`Humpty Dumpty saw it too,' the White Queen went on in a low voice,
more as if she were talking to herself. `He came to the door with a
corkscrew in his hand -- '
`What did he want?' said the Red Queen.
`He said he WOULD come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he
was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't
such a thing in the house, that morning.'
`Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone.
`Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.
`I know what he came for,' said Alice: `he wanted to punish the
fish, because -- '
Here the White Queen began again. `It was SUCH a thunderstorm, you
can't think!' (She NEVER could you know,' said the Red Queen.) `And
part of the roof came off, and ever so much thunder got in -- and it
went rolling round the room in great lumps -- and knocking over the
tables and things -- till I was so frightened, I couldn't remember my
own name!'
Alice thought to herself, `I never should TRY to remember my name
in the middle of an accident! Where would be the use of it?' but she
did not say this aloud, for fear of hurting the poor Queen's feeling.
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