Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’<br /><br />‘I’m seven and a half exactly.’<br /><br />‘You needn’t say “exactually,”’ the Queen remarked: ‘I can believe it without that. Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.’<br /><br />‘I can’t believe that!’ said Alice.<br /><br />‘Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’<br /><br />Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’<br /><br />‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.