He says to his mother, “Who told you that?”
“Ass’-skin; she wished to go and see it.”
The king goes to where Faithful was and gives her two blows with his slipper, saying to her:
“If you return there again I will kill you on the spot.”
The next day Ass’-skin goes with her geese, and there appears to her again the old woman. She tells her that she ought to go to the ball again this evening—that her mistress would give her permission. “Here is a walnut; you have there all that is necessary to dress yourself with. The king will ask you your name—Braf-le-mandoufle.”[80]
In the evening she asks permission of her mistress, but she is astonished (at her asking), and says to her:
“You do not know what the king has said—that if he catches you he will kill you on the spot?”
“I am not afraid. He will be sure not to catch me.”
“Go, then.”
She goes off, and on the way she breaks the walnut, and there comes out of it a golden robe. She goes in. The king comes with a thousand compliments, and asks her how she had escaped the evening before without saying anything to him, and that he had been very much hurt at it.