Hatter

Two days wrong. I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!

March Hare

It was the best butter.

Hatter

Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well; you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife—

March Hare

[Takes the watch, looks at it gloomily, dips it into his cup of tea and looks at it again but doesn’t know what else to say.]

It was the best butter, you know.

Alice