You looked very surprised at first, and then you laughed at yourself. And you said to me:

" I always feel at home ! "

Indeed. When it is noon in the United States, the sun, as everyone knows, lies on France. It would be enough to be able to go to France in one minute to watch the sunset. Unfortunately France is far too far away. But, on your little planet, it was enough for you to pull your chair a few steps. And you were watching twilight whenever you wished ...

"One day I saw the sun go down forty-four times! "

And a little later you added:

"You know ... when you're so sad you like the sunsets ..."

"So the day of the forty-four times you were so sad?" "

But the little prince did not answer.

VII

The fifth day, always thanks to the sheep, this secret of the life of the little prince was revealed to me. He asked me brusquely, without preamble, as the fruit of a problem long meditated in silence: