A young man who was watching this could not help laughing. He was curious about it too and asked the dervish, "Why do you say to everybody, "That is why?"" He answered, "It is plain. The gentleness of the king was the reason why he acted so towards me; the dullness of the courtiers was why they were curt to me; the rudeness and crudeness of the pages and the bodyguard was why they were rude to me."