It was a very simple, humble place, not in
the least terrible to look at, and yet, as soon as she saw it, her
fear again awoke, and always, as soon as her fear awoke, the trust
of the princess fell into a dead sleep. Foolish and useless as she
might by this time have known it, she once more began kicking and
screaming, whereupon, yet once more, the wise woman set her down on
the heath, a few yards from the back of the cottage, and saying
only, "No one ever gets into my house who does not knock at the
door, and ask to come in," disappeared round the corner of the
cottage, leaving the princess alone with the moon--two white faces
in the cone of the night.
III.
The moon stared at the princess, and the princess stared at the
moon; but the moon had the best of it, and the princess began to
cry. And now the question was between the moon and the cottage. The
princess thought she knew the worst of the moon, and she knew
nothing at all about the cottage, therefore she would stay with the
moon.
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