They were about to sit down and enjoy the tea when a dove flew in at the window. It had a message tied round its neck. The message was for the prince. It said, “Come home at once. Your father is ill.”
So the prince took off his cap with the big feather in it, and made a bow. Then he went out of the window as suddenly as he had come.
Goldy said to herself, “I will go to the Gypsy and have my fortune told. Perhaps I shall meet the prince again.”
So she put on her blue dress and sunbonnet, and went to the house where the Gypsy lived, and knocked at the door.
The Gypsy said,
“Cross-Patch, pull the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin;
Cross-Patch, pull the latch,
Open the door, come in!”
Then Goldy opened the door and walked in.