• 'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
• 'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up and walking away. 'You insult me by talking such nonsense!'
• 'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so easily offended, you know!'
• The Mouse only growled in reply.