She can’t do subtraction. Can you do division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what’s the answer to that?

Alice

I suppose—

Red Queen

[Answers for her.]

Bread and butter, of course. Try another subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog; what remains?

Alice

The bone wouldn’t remain, of course, if I took it—and the dog wouldn’t remain; it would come to bite me—and I’m sure I shouldn’t remain.


Red Queen

Then you think nothing would remain?