Gryphon
It’s all his fancy that. Mock Turtle hasn’t got no sorrow. This here young lady, she wants for to know your history, she do.
I’ll tell it her. Sit down both of you, and don’t speak a word till I’ve finished.
Alice
I don’t see how you can ever finish, if you don’t begin.
Mock Turtle
Once, I was a real Turtle.
[A long silence is broken only by the exclamations, “Hjckrrh,” of the Gryphon and the heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle.]
Mock Turtle