'You wished for me, and now you have to work me eight hours a day.

It is the law'; it was the machine itself which spoke.
'I'll break you,' said the Sloth.
'I am unbreakable,' said the machine with gentle pride.
'This is your doing,' said the Sloth, turning its furious eyes on Lucy in the doorway.

'You wait till I catch you!' And all the while it had to go on turning that handle.
'Thank you,' said Lucy politely; 'I think I will not wait.

And I shall have eight hours' start,' she added.
Even as she spoke a stream of clear water began to run from the pumping machine.

It slid down the gold steps and across the golden court.