Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I mighthave won, if it hadn‘t been for that nasty Knight, that camewiggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, let‘s pretend-‘
‘Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don‘t smile, my dear, I‘m askingit seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, youwatched just as if you understood it: and when I said "Check!"you purred!
You can just see a little peep of the passage inLooking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-roomwide open: and it‘s very like our passage as far as you can see,only you know it may be quite different on beyond. Oh, Kitty!
This is not the place to examine thoroughly the hypothesis uponwhich this experiment rests, or the deductions which follow fromits invariable success.