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`` I intend to -- for a little while ; but it is impossible to go on with the same set of opinions forever . Just think how dull conversation would become ! '' `` Well , dear , you may go to sleep now , for mind , I shall want you down to breakfast before eleven . I have given ` Somebody ' permission to call at five o'clock to-morrow -- or rather to-day -- and we shall have a _ tete-à-tete _ tea . '' Alice determined that it should be strictly _ tete-à-tete . _ She went to spend the afternoon with Carrol 's sisters , and stayed until she thought the lovers had had ample time to make their vows and arrange their wedding . There was a little pout on her lips as she left Carrol outside the door , and slowly bent her steps to Eleanor 's private parlor .