بس هيه لوحدها عارفة من جواها إنها أهم منكم كلكم، عشان هي اللي انا سقيتها .عشان هي اللي انا حطيتها تحت الغطا الإزاز. عشان هي اللي انا حميتها بالبرفان. عشان هي اللي انا قوتلها الدود (وسبت دودتين ثلاثة عشان الفراشات). وعشان هي اللي انا سمعتها بتشتكي، أو بتتمنظر، أو حتى ساكتة ساعات.
But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing.