Alice, who could read the characters, found herself quite at a loss to imagine why they should be thus applied.
At last they came to one bearing a character which signified the "door of death."
Here the doctor paused.
Determined not to give him the satisfaction of displaying any curiosity, Alice stood waiting for the doctor to speak.
He pointed to the character and said in English:
"I suppose you haven't forgotten how to read your Chinese?"
"No; I haven't forgotten."
"You see what that says?"
"Yes; I see."
"It may or may not apply to you, Alice."