Mary Ann! Mary Ann! said the voice. Fetch me my gloves this moment!
Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was
the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the
house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as
large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; but, as
the door opened inwards, and Alice s elbow was pressed hard against it,
that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself Then I ll
go round and get in at the window.
_That_ you won t! thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied
she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her
hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything,
but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass,
from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a
cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
Next came an angry voice the Rabbit s Pat! Pat! Where are you? And
then a voice she had never heard before, Sure then I m here! Digging
for apples, yer honour!
Digging for apples, indeed! said the Rabbit angrily. Here! Come and
help me out of _this!_ (Sounds of more broken glass.)
Now tell me, Pat, what s that in the window?
Sure, it s an arm, yer honour! (He pronounced it arrum. )
An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole
window!
Sure, it does, yer honour: but it s an arm for all that.
Well, it s got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!
There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers
now and then; such as, Sure, I don t like it, yer honour, at all, at
all! Do as I tell you, you coward! and at last she spread out her
hand again, and made another snatch in the air. This time there were
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