A piece of paper is discovered, supposedly a decisive piece of evidence. Despite the fact that it in no way suggest the Knave wrote it, the King and Queen take it as evidence against him (the Knave must feel like Joseph K. from Kafka’s The Trial). The paper contains a poem full of pronouns with ambiguous references. It could be construed to mean anything, but the King and Queen find ways to make it implicate the Knave. Alice contests that any meaning at all can be found in it, and the Queen becomes incensed with her, and orders her head chopped off.