The narrator tells us that the prince has thorns in his path, and that he never did anything he had to do in order to survive. When he was a kid, he didn't go to clubs or play with friends, because he was afraid that people would look at him and judge him based on his family's standing. So he spent so much time thinking about what people would think of him that he found himself lacking in interest in others. The narrator says that when he came to visit his parents, he was "thoughtless" and said that he should come visit them. He says that he was the one to decide to come, and he is glad that he did. He tells the narrator that his mother's face looked relieved when he told her that he works at a flower-shop. When the narrator tells the girl that he is working at the flower shop, her face looks relieved to him, but she doesn't know what to make of it.