When they had gone some distance on their way , the White Bear asked her if everything had not happened just as he had foretold , and she could not but own that it had . `` Then , if you have done what your mother wished , '' said he , `` you have brought great misery on both of us . '' `` No , '' she said , `` I have not done anything at all . '' So when she had reached home and had gone to bed it was just the same as it had been before , and a man came and lay down beside her , and late at night , when she could hear that he was sleeping , she got up and kindled a light , lit her candle , let her light shine on him , and saw him , and he was the handsomest prince that eyes had ever beheld , and she loved him so much that it seemed to her that she must die if she did not kiss him that very moment . So she did kiss him ; but while she was doing it she let three drops of hot tallow fall upon his shirt , and he awoke . `` What have you done now ? '' said he ; `` you have brought misery on both of us . If you had but held out for the space of one year I should have been free . I have a step-mother who has bewitched me so that I am a white bear by day and a man by night ; but now all is at an end between you and me , and I must leave you , and go to her . She lives in a castle which lies east of the sun and west of the moon , and there too is a princess with a nose which is three ells long , and she now is the one whom I must marry . '' She wept and lamented , but all in vain , for go he must . Then she asked him if she could not go with him . But no , that could not be . `` Can you tell me the way then , and I will seek you -- that I may surely be allowed to do ! '' `` Yes , you may do that , '' said he ; `` but there is no way thither . It lies east of the sun and west of the moon , and never would you find your way there . '' When she awoke in the morning both the Prince and the castle were gone , and she was lying on a small green patch in the midst of a dark , thick wood . By her side lay the self-same bundle of rags which she had brought with her from her own home . So when she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes , and wept till she was weary , she set out on her way , and thus she walked for many and many a long day , until at last she came to a great mountain . Outside it an aged woman was sitting , playing with a golden apple .
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