Pluck with your thumbs
Seven silver plums
[Speaking in high, cracked voice.
From my golden apple-tree!
These the dog must eat.
The change will be complete,
And a prince once more the dog will be!
[Princess darts back into orchard, followed by dog, who crouches behind hedge, and is seen no more. She picks plums, and, stooping, gives them to him, under cover of the hedge. The real Prince Hero leaps up from the place where he has been lying, waiting, and hand in hand they run back to the centre of the stage, where the Prince receives the embraces of King and Queen. Prince then turns to Knight.
Prince Hero