Chapter I: Looking Glass HouseOne thing was certain, that the girl with the blonde hair had nothing to do with it – it was the girl with the black hair's fault entirely. For the blonde girl had been having her blood sucked out of her by the old Mistress Vampire for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that she couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.
The way the Mistress sucked a mortal's blood was this: first she held the poor thing down by its hair with one mighty hand, and then with the other hand she twisted the head to one side, revealing the juicy flesh of the neck, into which her bright white fangs bit and onto which her lips attached like terrible suckers; and just now, as I had said, she was hard at work on the blonde girl, who was
