She ran to see who was outside; but when she opened the door and saw the frog she shut it again in great haste and sat down at the table looking very much frightened. The King, seeing that his daughter was alarmed, said to her: “My child, what is the matter? Is there a giant outside at the door, wanting to carry you off?”
“Oh, no!” she replied; “it is no giant,—only a great ugly frog.”
“A frog! What can he want with you, my daughter?”
“Yesterday when I was playing with my golden ball by the fountain in the forest it fell into the water, and because I cried the frog [[22]]brought it out for me, and he made me promise that he should come here and be my companion; but I never thought he could get out of the water to come. And now he is outside there, and wants to come in to me.”
Just then he knocked at the door a second time, and called:
“Youngest King’s daughter,
Open to me.
Do you not know
What you promised me,