Scene Two
[Is Scene One, reversed. The portieres are black and red squares like a chessboard. A soft radiance follows the characters mysteriously. As the curtain rises Alice comes through the looking glass; steps down, looks about in wonderment and goes to see if there is a “fire.” The Red Queen rises out of the grate and faces her haughtily.]
Alice: Why, you’re the Red Queen!
Red Queen: Of course I am! Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers!
Alice: I only wanted to see what the looking glass was like. Perhaps I’ve lost my way.
Red Queen: I don’t know what you mean by your way; all the ways about here belong to me .Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.
Alice: I’ll try it when I go home; the next time I’m a little late for dinner.
Red Queen: It’s time for you to answer now; open your mouth a little wider when you speak, and always say, “Your Majesty.” I suppose you don’t want to lose your name?
Alice: No, indeed.
Red Queen: And yet I don’t know, only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it! For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out “come here,” and there she would have to leave off, because there wouldn’t be any name for her to call, and of course you wouldn’t have to go, you know.
Alice: That would never do, I’m sure; the governess would never think of excusing me from lessons for that. If she couldn’t remember my name, she’d call me “Miss,” as the servants do.
Red Queen: Well, if she said “Miss,” and didn’t say anything more, of course you’d miss your lessons. I dare say you can’t even read this book.
Alice: It’s all in some language I don’t know. Why, it’s a looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again.
Jabberwocky: ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;/All mimsy were the borogroves,/And the mome raths outgabe. It seems very pretty, but it’s rather hard to understand; somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are.
Red Queen: I daresay you don’t know your geography either. Look at the map!
[She takes a right angle course to the portieres and points to them with her sceptre. ]
Alice: It’s marked out just like a big chessboard. I wouldn’t mind being a pawn, though of course I should like to be a Red Queen best.
Red Queen: That’s easily managed. When you get to the eighth square you’ll be a Queen. It’s a huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world. Come on, we’ve got to run. Faster, don’t try to talk.
Alice: I can’t.
Red Queen: Faster, faster.
Alice: Are we nearly there?
Red Queen: Nearly there! Why, we passed it ten minutes ago. Faster. You may rest a little now.
Alice: Why, I do believe we’re in the same place. Everything’s just as it was.

Question:
Which phrase from the text suggests that Alice is often in trouble?
Answer choices for the above question
A. “‘Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say’” (paragraph 5)
B. “‘the next time I’m a little late for dinner’” (paragraph 6)
C. “‘she’d call me “Miss,” as the servants do’” (paragraph 10)
D. “‘I dare say you can’t even read this book’” (paragraph 11)