"Oh, it's a very nice place when you're used to it."
"That's what you think," the bat said. "Wait till you come to be my age. But now, tell me your adventures."
"I'd better humour him," the Queen said to herself, and so she plunged into the recital.
When she had finished the bat said, "H'm! and so you're going to marry the Regent?"
"I'm not going to do anything of the sort," the Queen said.
And the bat asked, "Who are you going to marry, then?"
The Queen answered, "No one; at least——"
And the bat said, "Just so."
And the Queen replied, "Don't be stupid. Oh, and tell me how one can cure blindness with wind-flowers."
The bat said, "Do you know how to make tea?"