The guests began to eat more slowly.
The hosts, filled with kindliness and the desire to help their fellow-men by getting their money's worth, began to shout:
"Keep it up!"
"Go on!"
"Eat away!"
"Fill up! Fill up!"
"It's free! It's free!"
Charity is not dead, but sleepeth. When it awakens, it is ruthless.
Presently men and women at the tables, who had thought they were in paradise surrounded by angels, began to throw up their hands and shake their heads helplessly.
A storm of hisses greeted the ingratitude. Fat hosts began to shout: