Thereupon the King’s Minister having said, “I can come [after] finding her; I want time for three months, and a handkerchief that the Princess sewed,” asked for [the handkerchief]. The King gave it.
Then the Minister also having come by sea, landed at the city at which this Princess and Prince stay. Having come there, he showed and showed that handkerchief at the shops, while asking, “Are there handkerchiefs of this kind?”
The shopkeepers who got that handkerchief said, “Here; we have one,” and showed it.
Thereupon the Minister asked at the hand of the shopkeepers, “Who gave this handkerchief?”
The shopkeepers said, “Behold. The man who stays at the house in the lower part of that garden brought and gave it.”
So having gone near the house, when he looked only the Princess was [there], not the Prince. Having said at the hand of the Princess, “Your father the King said to you [that you are] to go with me,” he showed the handkerchief.
Thereupon the Princess said, “No. It is not father who provided subsistence for me for so much time. There is a person who provided my livelihood. Because of it, unless I ask from him and go, without [doing so] I will not go.” At that time the Prince came.
After he came this Princess said to the Prince, “Elder brother, my father the King having said that I am to go, has sent this Minister. What do you say about it?” she asked.
The Prince said, “If you will go, go; if you will be [here], stay. It is [according to] any wish of yours.”
Then the Princess spoke, “Don’t say so, elder brother. Except that if you told me to stay I will stay, and if you told me to go I will go, for the word of my father the King I will not go. Because of it, let the whole three of us go.”