They go a good distance, and arrive at a country into which the young lady could not enter. She says to her husband:
“I can go no farther. It is the land of the Christians there; I cannot enter into it. You must go there the first. You must fetch a priest. He must baptize me, and afterwards I will come with you; but you must take great care that nobody kisses you. If so, you will forget me altogether. Mind and pay great attention to it; and you, too, do not you kiss anyone.”
He promises his wife that he will not. He goes, then, on, and on, and on. He arrives in his own country, and as he is entering it an old aunt recognises him, and comes behind him, and gives him two kisses.[59] It is all over with him. He forgets his wife, as if he had never seen her, and he stays there amusing himself, and taking his pleasure.
The young lady, seeing that her husband never returned, that something had happened to him, and that she could no longer count upon him, she takes a little stick, and striking the earth, she says:
“I will that here, in this very spot, is built a beautiful hotel, with all that is necessary, servants, and all the rest.”
There was a beautiful garden, too, in front, and she had put over the door:
“Here they give to eat without payment.”
One day the young man goes out hunting with two comrades, and while they were in the forest they said one to the other:
“We never knew of this hotel here before. We must go there too. One can eat without payment.”
They go off then. The young lady recognises her husband very well, but he does not recognise her at all. She receives them very well. These gentlemen are so pleased with her, that one of them asks her if she will not let him pass the night with her.[60] The young lady says to him, “Yes.” The other asks also, “I, too, was wishing it.” The young lady says to him: