She looked up and saw an aster growing in a green flower-pot which she had never seen before; and on one of the flowers was perched a tiny fairy.
“And you can have everything you can wish for except one thing. If you wish for that you will lose the rose.”
“And what is that?” asked Lilla, taking the rose which the fairy offered her.
“You must never ask for soap bubbles.”
“Oh, soap bubbles? Of course, I shall not wish for them!” said Lilla.
“Whenever you want anything,” said the fairy, “just say:
“Rose, Rose, bring to me
Everything I wish to see.”
“You will be a princess as long as you keep the rose. But you must never ask for soap bubbles. Good-by; now I must go back to my home.”
So the fairy went to Fairyland, and Lilla went home; but no one knew her, because she was now a princess with long hair and a golden crown.