The Monarchs Fall In The End

The narrator sees the monarchs as people who might be coming to pay him to do a portrait for them at first because they were monarchs and he expected them to be very rich.  He soon realizes they have come for the contrary.  The monarchs have come to be paid to model which surprises the painter.  The last line symbolizes that the painter and the monarchs have switched classes and it hurt him to see they were his servants so he paid them to leave.