"Poor thing" , says the narrator, "you must be starving" . He tells the boy that if he had met his mother sooner, he probably would not be where he is now. The boy tells his father that he misses his mother and that he wants to go back to her. He says that his mother told him that she was going to show him a magic trick, but that she didn't want him anymore. He asks his father why he left him in the box, and his father says that he did not want to be responsible to her like he should have been