ALLIGATOR (nodding). Thee.
MAN. Thou didst promise to be my friend.
ALLIGATOR. I was only fooling thee.
MAN. But I helped thee out of trouble.
ALLIGATOR. No matter—I mean to eat thee.
MAN. Is that the way to repay a favor—by doing a wrong?
ALLIGATOR (nodding). That's the way of all the animals.
MAN. Thou art surely mistaken—not all the animals—
ALLIGATOR (interrupting). There's not one of them remembers a favor or a friend when hungry.
MAN. I cannot think that! Suppose we ask the first animal that comes to drink?