Triton: "I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed."
Ariel: "But Daddy!"
Triton: "Is it true you rescued a human from drowning?"
Ariel: "Daddy, I had to."
Triton: "Contact between the human world and the mer world is strictly forbidden. Ariel, you know that! Everyone knows that."
Ariel: "He would have died."
Triton: "One less human to worry about!"
Ariel: "You don't even know him."
Triton: "Know him? I don't have to know him, they're all the same! Spineless, savage, harpooning fish eaters, incapable of any feeling of."
Ariel: "Daddy, I love him!"
[gasps]"
Triton: "No! Have you lost your senses completely? He's a human, you're a mermaid!"
Ariel: "I don't care."
Triton: "So help me, Ariel, I am going to get through to you; and if this is the only way, so be it!"