“We’ll visit my second sister now,” he said. “If she offers you a present, ask her for her little locked box without a key and accept nothing else.”
On, on they flew until the oldest sister’s castle was far behind.
“Look, master,” the Grouse said, “look straight ahead and tell me what you see.”
Helli shaded his eyes and looked.
“Far ahead I see something that is like a silver cloud.”
“That,” said the Grouse, “is the silver castle of my second sister.”
At the silver castle the second sister received them with joy and when she heard who Helli was at once declared that she wanted to show him her gratitude by making him a gift.
“Ask from me what you will,” she said, “and you shall have it.”
But when he asked for her little locked box without a key, she cried out:
“No! No! Not that! Anything else!”