Chapter 7
The endless tea-party and the way into the garden
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1 Seen from high above the wood, the March Hare's fur-roofed house sits small in a golden clearing.
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2 Alice steps onto the lawn and sees the tea-party for the first time.
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3 Alice drops indignantly into the big arm-chair at one end of the long tea-table.
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4 The March Hare leans over the crowded tea-table and offers Alice wine.
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5 Alice sits upright in the big arm-chair and answers the March Hare's rudeness
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6 The Hatter leans on the sleeping Dormouse with his teacup halfway to his lips.
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7 Alice sits stiffly in the big arm-chair after scolding the Hatter.
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8 Alice brightens at once when the Hatter asks his riddle.
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9 The March Hare pounces on Alice's words, and the Hatter joins in over the sleeping Dormouse's head.
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10 The Dormouse sleeps while his two neighbours rest their elbows on him like a cushion
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11 The talk at the mad tea-party has stopped.
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12 The Hatter shakes his watch, holds it to his ear and asks Alice the day of the month
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13 The Hatter holds his buttered watch to his ear and sighs, "Two days wrong!"
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14 The Hatter holds out his open watch, its works gummed with butter and crumbs
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15 The March Hare gloomily lifts the Hatter's watch out of his teacup, dripping tea
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16 Alice leans in over the March Hare's shoulder to look at the dripping watch
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17 The Hatter points his teaspoon at Alice and declares his watch perfectly reasonable
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18 Alice sits very straight in the big arm-chair and tries to keep her manners.
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19 The Hatter tips a teapot over the sleeping Dormouse, tea falling toward its nose
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20 The Dormouse has been woken by hot tea poured on his nose.
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21 Alice gives up on the riddle and asks for the answer.
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22 Alice sinks back into the huge arm-chair and sighs, tired of riddles with no answers
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23 At the tea-table under the tree, the Hatter throws back his head in lofty contempt
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24 The Hatter leans over the tea-table and tells Alice a secret: Time won't stand beating.
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25 The March Hare leans on his paw, wishing it were half-past one, dinner-time
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26 At the endless tea-table, Alice leans towards the Hatter with a real, thoughtful question.
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27 The Hatter shakes his head mournfully and points his teaspoon at the March Hare
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28 For one dreamy moment the Hatter is back on the Queen's stage.
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29 Under the great tree the Hatter sings his nonsense song down the long tea-table.
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30 The sleeping Dormouse starts singing and drowns out the Hatter's sad story
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31 At the tea-party, the Hatter acts out the Queen of Hearts screaming 'Off with his head!'
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32 The Hatter tells how it has always been six o'clock since his quarrel with Time
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33 At the endless tea-party, Alice suddenly realises why the long table holds so many tea-things.
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34 A row of used cups and crumby plates leads along the tablecloth to the first clean cup
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35 Alice leans across the table and asks what happens when they come round to the beginning
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36 The March Hare gives a huge, lazy yawn and says the young lady should tell a story
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37 Pinched from both sides at once, the Dormouse slowly half-opens his heavy eyes.
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38 The March Hare and the Hatter lean over the sleepy Dormouse from both sides and demand a story.
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39 Pinched awake, the drowsy Dormouse rushes into his story of three sisters in a well
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40 Alice gently objects that children living on treacle would be ill
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41 Alice gazes into her empty teacup as if into a well, picturing the three sisters
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42 The March Hare pushes the teapot towards Alice's empty cup.
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43 The Hatter jabs his teaspoon at Alice, grinning as he turns her own rebuke on her
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44 Alice helps herself to tea and bread-and-butter, then turns to ask the Dormouse again
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45 Alice has just shouted "There's no such thing!"
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46 The Dormouse sits upright, nose in the air, and sleepily answers 'Treacle'
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47 The Hatter suddenly breaks into the Dormouse's story on a whim.
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48 At the Hatter's whim the tea-party moves one place along the table.
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49 Alice moves one place on and finds her plate flooded with milk the March Hare spilled
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50 Alice asks the Dormouse a polite question, and the Hatter sneers an answer for it
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51 The half-asleep Dormouse sits on the tablecloth and says "—well in" with a perfectly straight face.
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52 Muddled by the "well in" pun, Alice gives up and lets the Dormouse talk on.
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53 Alice has no answer to the March Hare's "Why not?".
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54 The Hatter pinches the Dormouse, who wakes with a shriek and gabbles about M-words
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55 Staring into his clean cup, the Hatter rudely cuts Alice off without looking at her
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56 Alice has had enough of the Hatter's rudeness.
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57 Alice walks away from the mad tea-party and looks back once more over her shoulder.
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58 Alice walks off from the mad tea-party and marches crossly through the long grass of the green wood.
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59 Having walked away from the rude tea-party, Alice finds a small wooden door in a tree trunk.
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60 Alice is back in the dim, amber-lit hall, standing beside the little glass table
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61 Seen through the glass tabletop, a child's hand picks up the tiny golden key
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62 Alice is back in the long hall, and this time she starts in the right order.
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63 Foot-high Alice takes one last nibble of the mushroom beside the open little door
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64 Alice, now only a foot high, steps through the open little door into the narrow passage.
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65 Alice steps through the little door into the bright garden of flower-beds and fountains
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