When they were seated at the wedding feast, the Prince said he thought they ought to invite the maiden who lived in the gilded hut, because without her help they could not have got to the church at all. The King thought so too; so they sent five courtiers to ask her to the feast.
“Greet the King,” replied the maid, “and tell him if he is too good to come to me, I am too good to go to him.”
So the King had to go himself and invite her; and as they went to the palace he thought she was something else than what she seemed to be.
So he put her in the place of honor beside the Prince; and after a while the Master-Maid took out the golden cock and hen and the golden apple, which she had brought from the Giant’s house, and put them on the table.
At once the cock and hen began to fight.
“Oh! look how those two there are fighting for the apple,” said the Prince.
“Yes, and so did we fight to get out of danger,” said the Master-Maid.
Then the Prince knew her again. The Witch who had thrown him the apple disappeared, and now for the first time they began really to keep the wedding.