... Alice was puzzled. `In our country,' she remarked, `there's only one day at a time.'
The Red Queen said `That's a poor thin way of doing things. Now here, we mostly have days and nights two or three at a time, and sometimes in the winter we take as many as five nights together--for warmth, you know.'
`Are five nights warmer than one night, then?' Alice ventured to ask.
`Five times as warm, of course.'
`But they should be five times as cold, by the same rule'