__"Cheshire Puss," she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. "Come, it's pleased so far," thought Alice, and she went on. "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
__"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
__"I don't much care where -" said Alice.
__"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "-so long as I get somewhere,"Alice added as an explanation.
__"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
__Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
__"In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
__"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
__"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
__"How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
__"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
(...)
__"All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
__"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"