"Now about these moles. You pointed to the right side of your neck. Are you sure they aren't on the left side?"
"Let me think now," said Alice, frowning. "When he's shaving in a morning--he get up earlier now than he used to--I can see his face in the looking-glass, and in the looking-glass the moles are on the left side. So on him they must be on the right side. Yes, the right side. That's it."
"Have you never seen them except in a mirror, my good woman?" interpolated the judge.
For some reason Alice flushed. "I suppose you think that's funny," she snapped, slightly tossing her head.
The audience expected the roof to fall. But the roof withstood the strain, thanks to a sagacious deafness on the part of the judge. If, indeed, he had not been visited by a sudden deafness, it is difficult to see how he would have handled the situation.
"Have you any idea," Vodrey inquired, "why your husband refuses to submit his neck to the inspection of the court?"
"I didn't know he had refused."
"But he has."
"Well," said Alice, "if you hadn't turned me out of the court while he was being examined, perhaps I could have told you. But I can't as it is. So it serves you right."
Thus ended Alice's performances.