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55.The Duchess is very happy to see Alice – her mood is quite changed from earlier – and she takes Alice’s arm to walk around the garden. Alice thinks to herself how she would act as a Duchess. She would feed her baby with sweet things instead, to make it sweet. The Duchess notices that Alice has stopped listening and tells her off. She adds that there is a moral to her comment, but she can’t remember it. The Duchess is fond of morals and goes on to name several. She is just the right height to rest her chin on Alice’s shoulder and speak into her ear, which bothers Alice exceedingly. The Duchess is friendly so long as she thinks that Alice is listening to her, and nasty as soon as she thinks Alice isn t. She is not interested in Alice, just in having someone listen to her. Her insistence that everything has a moral—while being unable to remember any—makes it clear that her viewpoint about morals is ridiculous.