He answered,
"Oh, it is King Thrushbeard's, and might have been thine."
And she cried,
"I was a silly young thing, I'm afeared,
Would I had taken that good King Thrushbeard!"
Then said the beggar-man,
"It does not please me to hear you always wishing for another husband; am I not good enough for you?"
At last they came to a very small house, and she said,
"Oh dear me! what poor little house do I see?
And whose, I would know, may the wretched hole be?"
The man answered,
"That is my house and thine, where we must live together."