The narrator tells the audience that he has already told them that he was not involved in the robbery, and that the man in the costume was not a part of the crime. He also tells them that ghosts are not allowed to tell their families who they are. The narrator says that the place has changed, and the man who looks like his son is now working there. He says that his son's parents will never forgive him, and they will hate him forever. Human love is "coated by hypocrisy," he says, and parents are "the superficial beings." The narrator goes on to say that children will never trust their parents, even if they are terrible people. Parents shouldn't be allowed to be parents in the first place, but children will still love their parents from the very moment they are born, he says. Finally, the narrator asks the inspector if he is the father of the girl in the grocery store costume. The inspector says that he isn't, but that he's thinking that his father is dead, and another child has been abandoned by his father