"ah," said the prince, "you've just come in the very nick of time, for to-morrow is to be our wedding-day; but now i won't have the long-nose, and you are the only woman in the world who can set me free. i'll say i want to see what my wife is fit for, and beg her to wash the shirt which has the three spots of tallow on it; she'll say yes, for she doesn't know 'tis you who put them there; but that's a work only for christian folk, and not for such a pack of trolls, and so i'll say that i won't have any other for my bride than the woman who can wash them out, and ask you to do it."