But when the last month of the year came, she began to think what she should do about those five skeins.
She did not have long to think, for the king took her into a room, all by herself, and said:
"Here is a spinning wheel, and here is a chair, and here is some flax.
"Now, my dear, sit down and spin five skeins before night, or off goes your head."
Then he turned and went out.
How frightened she was!
She could not spin.
She could only sit down and cry.
All at once there was a rap at the door.