Through the Looking-Glass understand.' (Actually, she didn't understand a word of it, but didn't like to say so.) It seems to fill my head with ideas but I don't know what they are!' Then she suddenly jumped up, as another idea came to her. "If I don't hurry, I shall have to go back through the looking-glass before I've seen the rest of the house, and the garden. I'll look at the garden first, I think.' In a moment she was out of the room and running down the stairs. But it wasn't really running, because she was moving gently through the air and her feet weren't touching the stairs at all. At the bottom she managed to catch hold of the door post, and after that she was pleased to find herself walking again in a natural way.