‘You’ve got to.’
‘Though you cut my throat, I won’t.’
Said the youngest son, ‘I’ll tell you what, Prince, let me go with her into a side-room and talk with her.’
He took her aside, and washed himself with the other water, and his face became as it was. She knew him.[10]
‘Come, now I’ll have you.’ [[89]]
He washed himself again with the first water, and his face was changed once more, and he went back to the emperor.
And he asked her, ‘Will you have him?’
‘I will.’
‘The wedding is to be in twelve days.’
And they called the old tailor, and commanded him, ‘In twelve days’ time be ready for the wedding.’ And they departed home.