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—