For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
Alice resta une ou deux minutes à regarder à la porte ; elle se demandait ce qu’il fallait faire, quand tout à coup un laquais en livrée sortit du bois en courant. (Elle le prit pour un laquais à cause de sa livrée ; sans cela, à n’en juger que par la figure, elle l’aurait pris pour un poisson.)