She was so surprised that her hand began to shake, and three drops from the candle fell upon the coat of the prince.
This woke him up.
"What have you done?" he cried. "You have brought trouble upon us. An ugly witch turned me into a bear, but every night I am myself again, and if you had waited only a year, and had not tried to find me out, I should have been free.
"Now I must go back to my other castle and marry an ugly princess with a nose three yards long."
The girl cried and cried and cried, but it did no good.
She asked if she could go with him, but he said that she could not.
"Tell me the way there," she said, "and I will find you."
"It is East of the Sun and West of the Moon, but there is no way to it," he said.
Next morning when the girl awoke, she found herself all alone in the deep woods.
She set out and walked and walked till she came to a very old woman sitting under a hill. The old woman had a golden apple in her hand.