Bob is Conveniently an Orphan, and lives a life of adventure and excitement with his friends. Then, one day, he gains some parents -- either his real parents turn up alive, or he meets somebody who would just love to adopt him. The new parents are loving and attentive and everything parents should be -- but they're determined that Bob should have nothing further to do with his True Companions. All that running around having adventures may have been all right when he had no parents to teach him better, but they're here now. So Bob bids a tearful farewell to his friends, especially those he'd come to think of as parental figures, and off he goes to what everybody is firmly telling themselves will be a happy life.