"what have you done?" he cried; "now you have made us both unlucky, for had you held out only this one year, i had been freed. for 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 ties are snapt between us; now i must set off from you to her. she lives in a castle which stands east of the sun and west of the moon, and there, too, is a princess, with a nose three ells long, and she's the wife i must have now."