She found out that because he had been an invalid he had not learned things as other children had.

One of his nurses had taught him to read when he was quite little and he was always reading and looking at pictures in splendid books.
Though his father rarely saw him when he was awake, he was given all sorts of wonderful things to amuse himself with.

He never seemed to have been amused, however.

He could have anything he asked for and was never made to do anything he did not like to do.
"Every one is obliged to do what pleases me," he said indifferently.

"It makes me ill to be angry.