PERI: Either the well was very deep or she fell very slowly.

ERIMEM: Why?

PERI: Why what?

ERIMEM: Why did Alice follow the White Rabbit with the strange obsession about time down the hole in the first place? It seems a rash and foolhardy action for so young a child. She ought to have had better sense.

PERI: Hmm. I feel a bit like Alice myself some days.

ERIMEM: And for that matter, what was a rabbit doing with a pocket watch?

PERI: It doesn't matter. Before you start to analyse the text, you have to be able to read it.