‘Was it you that took my dove?’
‘Ye—e—s!’
‘Was it also you that took my boar?’
‘Ye—e—s!’
‘And it was you that made me kill my eleven daughters?’
‘Ye—e—s!’
‘And now you have taken my lamp, and drowned my twelfth daughter in the well?’
‘Ye—e—s!’
‘Are you coming back again?’
‘That may be,’ said Esben.