It would take me too long to tell her tricks. They would
be amusing to us, who know that they could not do any harm,
but they were something other than amusing to the poor prince.
He wandered about the forest till daylight, and then fell fast asleep.
The same thing occurred for seven following days, during which neither
could he find the good fairy's cottage. After the third quarter
of the moon, however, the bad fairy thought she might be at ease
about the affair for a fortnight at least, for there was no chance
of the prince wishing to kiss the princess during that period.
So the first day of the fourth quarter he did find the cottage, and the
next day he found the glade. For nearly another week he haunted it.
But the princess never came. I have little doubt she was on the
farther edge of it some part of every night, but at this period she
always wore black, and, there being little or no light, the prince
never saw her. Nor would he have known her if he had seen her.
How could he have taken the worn decrepit creature she was now,
for the glorious Princess Daylight?

At last, one night when there was no moon at all, he ventured near
the house. There he heard voices talking, although it was past midnight;
for her women were in considerable uneasiness, because the one whose
turn it was to watch her had fallen asleep, and had not seen which
way she went, and this was a night when she would probably wander
very far, describing a circle which did not touch the open glade
at all, but stretched away from the back of the house, deep into
that side of the forest--a part of which the prince knew nothing.
When he understood from what they said that she had disappeared,
and that she must have gone somewhere in the said direction,
he plunged at once into the wood to see if he could find her.
For hours he roamed with nothing to guide him but the vague notion