As they are standing very still, Alice forgets they are alive and they reprimand her for not knowing the right manners for a visit. When they shake hands they all start dancing. Alice wants to know which road she should take to leave the forest, but they repeat ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ to her.
Then they take her to the sleeping Red King and tell her that she is only a thing in his dreams. When he wakes up, Alice will disappear. Although Alice doesn’t believe it, it still upsets her.
Tweedledum finds his rattle lying broken on the ground and he wants to start a fight with Tweedledee for it, just as in the poem. They ask Alice to dress them up with all kinds of material, which they use as armour. Before they can fight, the monstrous crow flies overhead, causing it to get very dark and making quite a wind with its wings. Tweedledum and Tweedledee run off and Alice hides in the forest. She notices a shawl being blown away.