His face paled, and he calmed down as he said:
"Promise me you will not go away."
"I promise not to go away until I must," said Maid Sally.
Then Mammy fed her "babby," and gave him a soothing dose of steeped skullcap, which drowsy herb soon had him in a quiet sleep.
Sally went about in a Fairy-like dream.
The back of her right hand seemed to have been touched with a golden wand where the Fairy Prince had kissed it.
Yet she was puzzling over the question how best to answer when her Prince would seek to know more about her, as he surely would.
Tell her own story she never could, at least not the first part of it. At length she murmured:
"Oh, my good Fairy, please tell me once more what had I better do?"
And the Fairy answered: