Hugh felt himself bound to defend her from the charge of bad manners.
"You needn't be so sharp," he said to the cats; "your eyes are as green as they can be." "Green doesn't count," said the right-hand cat, coolly.
"And how were we to know that ?" said Hugh.
"I don't know," said the left-hand cat.
"Well, but can't you be sensible ?" said Hugh, who didn't feel inclined to give in to two cats.
"Perhaps we might be if we tried," said the right-hand cat.

"But----" A sudden sound interrupted him.

It was as if some one had moved a piece of furniture with squeaking castors.
"Madame's turning her wheel," said the left-hand cat.

"Now's the time." Both cats got down from their chairs, and each, standing on their hind legs, proceeded to open his side of the door between the chairs--or "doors" I should almost say, for it was a double-hinged one, opening in the middle, and the funny thing about it was that one side opened outwards, and the other inwards, so that at first, unless you were standing just exactly in the middle, you did not see very clearly into the inside..