Next morning he put on the appearance of a madman and wandered about till he came to a lawn where several pert-faced girls were amusing themselves . On a throne , jewelled and overspread with silken stuffs , sat a girl the splendour of whose beauty lighted up the place , and whose ambergris and attar perfumed the whole air . ` That must be Mihrafruz , ' he thought , ` she is indeed lovely . ' Just then one of the attendants came to the water 's edge to fill a cup , and though the prince was in hiding , his face was reflected in the water . When she saw this image she was frightened , and let her cup fall into the stream , and thought , ` Is it an angel , or a peri , or a man ? ' Fear and trembling took hold of her , and she screamed as women scream . Then some of the other girls came and took her to the princess who asked : ` What is the matter , pretty one ? ' ' O princess ! I went for water , and I saw an image , and I was afraid . ' So another girl went to the water and saw the same thing , and came back with the same story . The princess wished to see for herself ; she rose and paced to the spot with the march of a prancing peacock . When she saw the image she said to her nurse : ` Find out who is reflected in the water , and where he lives . ' Her words reached the prince 's ear , he lifted up his head ; she saw him and beheld beauty such as she had never seen before . She lost a hundred hearts to him , and signed to her nurse to bring him to her presence . The prince let himself be persuaded to go with the nurse , but when the princess questioned him as to who he was and how he had got into her garden , he behaved like a man out of his mind -- sometimes smiling , sometimes crying , and saying : ' I am hungry , ` Or words misplaced and random , civil mixed with the rude . ` What a pity ! ' said the princess , ` he is mad ! ' As she liked him she said : ` He is my madman ; let no one hurt him . ' She took him to her house and told him not to go away , for that she would provide for all his wants . The prince thought , ` It would be excellent if here , in her very house , I could get the answer to her riddle ; but I must be silent , on pain of death . '
Now in the princess 's household there was a girl called Dil-aram -LSB- 7 -RSB- ; she it was who had first seen the image XXXXX the prince .
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