'I must be growing small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
Si levò, s'avvicinò al tavolo per misurarvisi; e osservò che s'era ridotta a circa sessanta centimetri di altezza e che andava rapidamente rimpicciolendosi: indovinò che la cagione di quella nuova trasformazione era il ventaglio che aveva in mano. Lo buttò subito a terra.