[It's not as if Prince isn't aware that youth and inexperience should excuse many things, it's just that he doesn't seem to actually extend any more patience to younger hosts than older. But he had been raised to be a serious child by serious people, without any more understanding for youth than he had. Perhaps, then, there was an excuse.]

Boredom is for dull minds that would be better turned to productive tasks.

[The words come seamlessly and level, as if they had been said a hundred times before. A thousand. An age old saying, or perhaps just his age old saying.]

Certainly there is no time for boredom now. Are you prepared?

[He looks him over, as if he expects to find him more prepared, or less, perhaps, than he is. Critically.]