For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
Alicia se quedó mirando la casa uno o dos minutos, y preguntándose lo que iba a hacer, cuando de repente salió corriendo del bosque un lacayo con librea (a Alicia le pareció un lacayo porque iba con librea; de no ser así, y juzgando sólo por su cara, habría dicho que era un pez) y golpeó enérgicamente la puerta con los nudillos.