This enrages the castle's owner - a terrifying beast. As he is leaving he notices a beautiful rose on a table and decides to take it back for Beauty. On the way he gets lost in a snow storm, and ends up at a magnificent castle where he is given food and shelter. Finding that he was nothing but bad luck in that city, the merchant refused another offer of aid and set out to make his way home on a stout pony he allowed to be lent to him, in spite of the fierce winter weather. A man who had once worked as his clerk and was now employed by a rival had let the merchant stay with him, but his employer found out and demanded that he be turned out. The ship had come in, but the creditors had remembered the merchant's old debts and seized upon the goods before he could reach them. He asks his daughters what presents they would like him to bring back, and Beauty requests a rose, as her bush has not blossomed that year because it has been so cold and rainy and miserable. After some time, the merchant hears word that one of his ships might have made it back and journeys to find out if it's true. The roses bloom under Beauty's care, and the sisters sells wreaths of them in the town. Roses are very rare because only great magic or great love can grow them. Beauty asks in the town and discovers that they are the roses the cottage are called after and begins to tend them, because she loves gardening and she remembers the smell of her mother's rose perfume.
The garden of the house is full of strange thorny bushes and vines, which neither of the merchant nor his three daughters can identify. A merchant loses all his money when his ships are lost at sea, and is forced to move his three daughters to a lonely countryside house called Rose Cottage which was left to his youngest, Beauty, in a will, and thus is not subject to his creditors.
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