“I will go up to the castle on the hill,” thought Lilla; “princesses go there to stay.”
At the castle they were expecting a princess, so they thought Lilla must be the one who was coming, and they gave her a grand room, all hung with velvet curtains, to sleep in. On the table was a silver box which Lilla thought just right to keep her rose in.
“Now, I shall try what I can do with my rose,” thought Lilla. So she thought of a box of toys, and said:
“Rose, Rose, bring to me
Everything I wish to see.”
Scarcely had she spoken when a maid came to say that a box had come for her.
When the box was opened, Lilla saw so many pretty things that she thought she would like a Christmas tree to hang them on, and again she said:
“Rose, Rose, bring to me
Everything I wish to see.”
And in a few minutes a Christmas tree arrived hung all over with gold and silver drops, and colored lights, and bonbons, and still more bonbons, and gifts of all kinds.