"Tonight, it will be a year... my star, then, can be found right above the place where I came to the Earth, a year ago...""Little man," I said, "tell me that it is only a bad dream― this affair of the snake, and the meeting-place, and the star..."But he did not answer my plea. He said to me, instead: "The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen...""Yes, I know..."

但他並不答覆我的題目。他對我說：“首要的事，是看不見的……”

"It is just as it is with the water. Because of the pulley, and the rope, what you gave me to drink was like music. You remember― how good it was.""Yes, I know..."

"Now go away," said the little prince. "I want to get down from the wall."I dropped my eyes, then, to the foot of the wall― and I leaped into the air. There before me, facing the little prince, was one of those yellow snakes that take just thirty seconds to bring your life to an end. Even as I was digging into my pocked to get out my revolver I made a running step back. But, at the noise I made, the snake let himself flow easily across the sand like the dying spray of a fountain, and, in no apparent hurry, disappeared, with a light metallic sound, among the stones.