I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Chapter 8
I soon learned to know this flower better.
On the little prince's planet the flowers had always been very simple.
They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody.
One morning they would appear in the grass, and by night they would have faded peacefully away.
But one day, from a seed blown from no one knew where, a new flower had come up; and the little prince had watched very closely over this small sprout which was not like any other small sprouts on his planet.
It might, you see, have been a new kind of baobab.
The shrub soon stopped growing, and began to get ready to produce a flower.