He told her the train she was to take on Tuesday morning.
The summons filled Alice with delight.

Wanley, whence had come the marvellous fortune, was in her imagination a land flowing with milk and honey.

Moreover, this would be her first experience of travel; as yet she had never been farther out of London than to Epping Forest.

The injunction to bring her best dress excited visions of polite company.
All through Monday she practised ways of walking, of eating, of speaking.
'What can he want you for ?' asked Mrs.Mutimer gloomily.

'I sh'd 'a thought he might 'a taken you with him after Christmas.