Then the Princess said another time, “However much you should say it is not so, that is indeed a Prince going along there.”
The six Princesses said, “It is not merely that to thee the Heṭṭiyā’s slave has become a Prince; he will come to call thee [to be his wife].”
Then the Princess replied still another time, “It is really so; he is inviting me indeed. However much you should say that, it was really a Prince who went there.”
The six Princesses said, “If he is inviting thee go thou also. The Heṭṭiyā’s slave is going there; go thou before he departs.”
The Princess replied, “I shall really go. You look. What though I have not gone now! Shall I not go hereafter?”
After the seven Princesses had come to the palace, the youngest Princess said at the hand of her father the King, “When we were bathing now, a slave youth went along with the Heṭṭiyā. That slave youth is really a Prince.”
Then the King sent an order to the Heṭṭiyā that the Heṭṭiyā’s slave and the Heṭṭiyā should come to him. Afterwards the Heṭṭiyā and the Heṭṭiyā’s slave went to the King.
The King asked, “Whence this slave youth?”
Then before the Heṭṭiyā said anything the Prince replied, “I was formerly a royal Prince; now I am doing slave work for this Heṭṭi-elder-brother.”
The King asked at the hand of the Heṭṭiyā, “Is he doing slave work for you?”