Chapter 4
The Rabbit Sends in a Little BillIt was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking
anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she
heard it muttering to itself, “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear
paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as
ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?”
Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the
pair of white kid-gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting
about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed
to have changed since her swim in the pool; and the great hall,
with the glass table and the little door, had vanished
completely.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about,
and called out to her,
