but when the prince went to bed he asked the page what the murmuring and rustling in the night had been? on this the page told all; that he had been forced to give him a sleeping-draught, because a poor girl had slept secretly in the chamber, and that he was to give him another that night. the prince said, "pour out the draught by the bed-side." at night, she was again led in, and when she began to relate how ill all had fared with her, he immediately recognized his beloved wife by her voice, sprang up and cried, "now i really am released! i have been as it were in a dream, for the strange princess has bewitched me so that i have been compelled to forget thee, but god has delivered me from the spell at the right time." then they both left the castle secretly in the night, for they feared the father of the princess, who was a sorcerer, and they seated themselves on the griffin which bore them across the red sea, and when they were in the midst of it, she let fall the nut. immediately a tall nut-tree grew up, whereon the bird rested, and then carried them home, where they found their child, who had grown tall and beautiful, and they lived thenceforth happily until their death.