“You will not guess what I am thinking about?”
“Tell it us, tell it us,” (said the other two).
“That I should like to be married to the king’s valet.”
“And I with his son-in-law,” said the second.
And the third said: “And I with the king himself.”
Now, the king lived not far from these girls, and just at that moment he was passing before the door of their house, and heard what they said. The next day the king asked the eldest:
“What were you saying yesterday at such a time?”
And she was ashamed to tell him, but the king pressed her so much that at last she told it:
“I said that I wished to be married to your servant.”
He made the second come, and asked her the same question: “What were you talking about yesterday?”