“Oh, I’m so fond of you, I couldn’t help doing it when I knew that your heart lay there,” said the Princess.
“How can you be so silly as to believe any such thing?” said the Giant.
“Oh yes; how can I help believing it, when you say it?” said the Princess.
“You’re a goose,” said the Giant; “where my heart is, you will never come.”
“Well,” said the Princess; “but for all that, ’twould be such a pleasure to know where it really lies.”
Then the poor Giant could hold out no longer, but was forced to say:
“On that island stands a church; in that church is a well; in that well swims a duck.”