[00:00.89]■chapter2 The pool of tears
[00:05.70]'Curiouser and curiouser！'said Alice．
[00:11.29](She was very surprised，and for a minute she forgot how to speak good English．)
[00:18.05]'I shall be as tall as a house in a minute，'she said．
[00:22.75]She tried to look down at her feet，and could only just see them．
[00:27.41]'Goodbye，feet！'she called．'Who will put on your shoes now？
[00:33.67]Oh dear！What nonsense I'm talking！'
[00:37.63]Just then her head hit the ceiling of the room．
[00:42.64]She was now about three metres high．
[00:46.96]Quickly，she took the little gold key from the table and hurried to the garden door．
[00:54.02]Poor Alice！She lay on the floor and looked into the garden with one eye．
[01:01.73]She could not even put her head through the door．
[01:05.17]She began to cry again，and went on crying and crying．
[01:10.82]The tears ran down her face，
[01:13.85]and soon there was a large pool of water all around her on the floor．
[01:20.67]Suddenly she heard a voice，and she stopped crying to listen．
[01:26.92]'Oh，the Duchess，the Duchess！She'll be so angry！
[01:35.19]I'm late，and she's waiting for me．Oh dear，oh dear！'
[01:42.96]It was the white Rabbit again．He was hurrying down the long room，
[01:48.97]with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand．
[01:53.82]Alice was afraid，but she needed help．She spoke in a quiet voice．
[02:02.00]'Oh，please，sir—' The Rabbit jumped wildly，dropped the gloves and the fan，
[02:11.40]And hurried away as fast as he could．Alice picked up the fan and the gloves．
[02:19.34]The room was very hot， so she began to fan herself while she talked．
[02:26.14]'Oh dear！ How strange everything is today！Did I change in the night？
[02:34.97]Am I a different person today？But if I'm a different person，
[02:41.65]then the next question is —who am I？Ah，that's the mystery．'
[02:48.56]She began to feel very unhappy again，but then she looked down at her hand．
[02:55.98]She was wearing one of the Rabbit's white gloves．
[03:00.66]'How did I get it on my hand？'she thought．'Oh，I'm getting smaller again！'
[03:10.69]She looked round the room．'I'm al- ready less than a metre high．
[03:16.07]And getting smaller every second！How can I stop it？'
[03:22.30]She saw the fan in her other hand， and quickly dropped it．
[03:27.97]She was now very，very small－and the little garden door was locked again，
[03:33.41]and the little gold key was lying on the glass table．
[03:41.22]'Things are worse than ever，'thought poor Alice．She turned away from the door，
[03:49.12]and fell into salt water，right up to her neck．
[03:54.46]At first she thought it was the sea，but then she saw it was the pool of tears．
[04:02.26]Her tears．Crying makes a lot of tears when you are three metres tall．
[04:09.65]'Oh，why did I cry so much？'said Alice．
[04:15.53]She swam around and looked for a way out，but the pool was very big．
[04:22.40]Just then she saw an animal in the water near her．
[04:28.40]It looked like a large animal to Alice，but it was only a mouse．
[04:34.48]'Shall I speak to it？'thought Alice．'Everything's very strange down here，
[04:42.60]so perhaps a mouse can talk．' So she began：
[04:47.99]'Oh Mouse，do you know the way out of this pool？
[04:53.83]I am very tired of swimming，oh Mouse！'
[04:58.29](Alice did not know if this was the right way to speak to a mouse．
[05:04.65]But she wanted to be polite．)
[05:09.29]The mouse looked at her with its little eyes，but it said nothing．
[05:13.64]'Perhaps it doesn't understand English，'thought Alice．
[05:20.21]'Perhaps it's a French mouse．'So she began again，and said in French：
[05:27.96]'Where is my cat？'（This was the first sentence in her French lesson-book．）
[05:36.05]The mouse jumped half out of the water and looked at her angrily．
[05:42.33]'Oh，I'm so sorry！'cried Alice quickly．'Of course，you don't like cats，do you？'
[05:51.64]'Like cats？'cried the mouse in a high，angry voice．'Does any mouse like cats？'
[06:00.93]'Well，perhaps not，'Alice began kindly．
[06:06.11]But the mouse was now swimming quickly away，and soon Alice was alone again．
[06:13.53]At last she found her way out of the pool and sat down on the ground．
[06:19.83]She felt very lonely and unhappy．
[06:23.87]But after a while the White Rabbit came past again，
[06:28.31]looking for his white gloves and his fan．
[06:33.06]'The Duchess！The Duchess！Oh my ears and whiskers！
[06:39.40]She'll cut my head off，I know she will！Oh，where did I drop my gloves？'
[06:47.22]Then he saw Alice．'Why，Mary Ann， what are you doing here？
[06:54.66]Run home at once，and bring me some gloves and a fan．Quick，now！'
[07:01.23]Alice hurried away．'But where is his house？'she thought while she ran．
[07:08.64]Strangely，she was no longer in the long room with the little door，
[07:14.29]but outside in a wood．She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere，
[07:21.29]so she sat down under a flower to rest．