I went in with Alice.

And when we had explained to her that we had only a shilling and we wanted it for something else, Alice suddenly said, 'Would you like some wine ?' And the lady said, 'Thank you very much,' but she looked surprised.
She was not a young lady, and she had a mantle with beads, and the beads had come off in places--leaving a browny braid showing, and she had printed papers about the dead sailors in a sealskin bag, and the seal had come off in places, leaving the skin bare.

We gave her a tablespoonful of the wine in a proper wine-glass out of the sideboard, because she was a lady.

And when she had tasted it she got up in a very great hurry, and shook out her dress and snapped her bag shut, and said, 'You naughty, wicked children! What do you mean by playing a trick like this?
You ought to be ashamed of yourselves! I shall write to your Mamma about it.

You dreadful little girl!--you might have poisoned me.