Selma.

We fairy princesses have no family.

Stensgård.

Fairy princesses?

Selma.

At most we have a wicked stepmother——

Stensgård.

A witch, yes! So you are a princess!

Selma.

Princess of all the sunken palaces, whence you hear the soft music on midsummer nights. Doctor Fieldbo thinks it must be pleasant to be a princess; but I must tell you——