“Never mind, open it.”
“No! I will not do it.”
“I am going to break in the door.”
“Do what you will, but I will not open it.”
He breaks open the door, as he said, and goes in. He sees this young girl on a little straw, covered only by her dress. The man wants to go near her. The girl says:
“You may kill me if you like, but you shall not come near me.”
They were like that a long time. The man says to her:
“Give me your promise of marriage, then?”
The young girl says, “What do you mean? I so poor and you so rich—how can we marry?”
The man says that they will do so. The young girl will not believe him, and the gentleman says to her: