Red Queen
You can’t be a Queen, you know, till you’ve passed the proper examination.
White Queen
The sooner we begin it, the better.
Alice
Please, would you tell me—
Red Queen
Speak when you’re spoken to.
Alice
But if everybody obeyed that rule, and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that—