The Dormouse’s line treats natural bodily growth as a legal trespass—something that can be permitted, restricted, or adjudicated. In a courtroom obsessed with rules but empty of reason, “right” is invoked not to protect persons but to police inconveniences: Alice’s enlarging body crowds the space and, symbolically, the proceedings. The Dormouse’s appeal to a “reasonable pace” burlesques legal phrases about reasonableness and proportion, reframing growth—an involuntary, developmental process—as a matter of etiquette and jurisdiction. For Alice, growing here signals her increasing confidence and critical judgment; physically expanding parallels her readiness to challenge the court’s incoherence later in Chapter XII. Carroll thus fuses literal size with moral and intellectual stature. The claim that she has “no right to grow” in this venue suggests Wonderland’s authority figures would control not just behavior but development itself. The line crystallizes the book’s satire: institutions that cannot manage meaning resort to regulating bodies and invoking hollow rights, even as the scene’s logic collapses into nonsense.