Yesterday
Under the linden tree?
Youngest King’s daughter,
Open to me.”
Then the King said: “My daughter, what you have promised, you must do. Go and open the door for him.”
She went and opened the door, and the frog hopped after her, close to her feet, and quite up to her chair. There he sat and cried, “Lift me up beside you.”
She hesitated, till the King commanded her to do it. [[23]]
When the frog was on the table he said, “Now push your little plate nearer to me, and we will eat together.”
She did it, but it was easy to see that she did not do it willingly. The frog seemed to enjoy his dinner very much, but every mouthful she ate choked her. At last he said, “I have eaten enough, and am tired; now carry me to your little room, and make your silken bed ready, that we may sleep together.”