Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse when the Queen bawled out, “He’s murdering the time! Off with his head!”
Alice
How dreadfully savage!
Hatter
And ever since that, he won’t do a thing I ask! It’s always six o’clock now.
Alice
Is that the reason so many tea things are put out here?
Hatter
Yes, that’s it; it’s always tea time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.