In this chapter, we are introduced to a new character, a little girl named Alice. She is the heroine of the story, and we are told that she has a crush on the butler, who is late for work. Alice is very excited to meet her new crush, but the butler is too late. He tells her that he will be late for tea, but Alice is too excited to believe that he is late. The conversation between Alice and the butler goes something like this: Alice wants to know if the dessert is a strawberry, a cherry, or a pudding. The butler says that it is a straw berry, and Alice says that the strawberry wants the cherry inside