The rabbit didn't back away an inch.

Instead, he gazed at the Rainbow's Daughter admiringly.
"Does your burrow go underneath this Wall of Air ?" asked Polychrome.
"To be sure," answered the Blue Rabbit; "I dug it that way so I could roam in these broad fields, by going out one way, or eat the cabbages in Nimmie Amee's garden by leaving my burrow at the other end.

I don't think Nimmie Amee ought to mind the little I take from her garden, or the hole I've made under her magic wall.

A rabbit may go and come as he pleases, but no one who is bigger than I am could get through my burrow." "Will you allow us to pass through it, if we are able to ?" inquired Polychrome.
"Yes, indeed," answered the Blue Rabbit.

"I'm no especial friend of Nimmie Amee, for once she threw stones at me, just because I was nibbling some lettuce, and only yesterday she yelled 'Shoo!' at me, which made me nervous.