Intermediate Thoughts: The Looking Glass Room
Alice felt like a child again as she jumped down from the mantelpiece and onto the floor of the old room. She did not stand as tall as she had done before, and her clothing was different: a little girl once again. Alice turned back to the looking glass and noticed that the other room that she had left behind had vanished and what was visible was her old drawing room. Alice smiled and then examined her own face. A seven year old little girl smiled back at her. Alice reached forwards to the glass and laid her hand upon that of her reflection's.
"Curiouser and curiouser," she said out loud to herself. "I feel almost as if I was seven years old." She drew her hand back down from the mirror and looked closely into the grinning face to the clock on the mantelpiece. She smiled back at it and then turned to see the room around her.
"It's just like the old drawing room," she thought. "Only everything is the other way around."
Alice stepped into the room to look around. It was still just as she remembered it, even down to the books and pictures on the walls. A set of chess men stood on a table in the corner, as Alice bent down to look at them.
Everything just as she remembered. It was amazing. Alice skipped around the room laughing.
"Oh how fun will it be when they see me through the glass in here and can't get at me!" she called. Her voice was young too. Even as she merely lingered in the room her old life seemed to be slipping away from her, like a dream upon waking. Charlotte's face was disappearing in her mind, as were her other daughters and her husband. Alice considered, trying to picture the faces of her two sisters, Lorina and Edith. She could see them in her head as girls, but not older. It seemed almost as if this Looking Glass World was where she really belonged, and the dream was her life as an adult. Could it be? Maybe. She might ask someone who may know later. This whole house could be quite different to her old house. The room she stood in was not even the same for example. Only the things that could be seen in the looking glass were not very interesting, but everything else (like the clock Alice had examined earlier) was very different.
Alice walked back over to the chess men and examined them closely.
"'They don't keep this room as tidy as the other'...