The House in the Forest (4)
“How did you sleep?” and “Will you marry me?”
“To your first question, I slept terribly. I had to get up in the middle of the night to try and open the cellar door where I could hear my two missing sisters screaming for help to escape. It was impossible to open the door so we decided to wait until morning for you whoever you really are, to release them.”
“I´ll have them released immediately. With your kindness you have changed us back to our true form.”
“Maybe so,” said Sally. “To your second question, the answer is no. I was lost in the wood and then thankfully you let me stay the night. But where is it written that I had to repay your kindness by making you dinner and fixing up the beds. How do you know my sisters weren´t planning to pay you back once they got back to their house? For your treatment of my sisters I could never marry scum like you. And as for your footmen. I liked them better as animals. I didn´t ask for breakfast in bed. Open the cellar door and let us be off. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.”
She nagged on and on at him for about half an hour until he opened the cellar door and ordered the footmen to show the three sisters the right way home.
Once home Sally declared to all the household that the next time the woodcutter had a great idea he could shove it where the sun don´t shine.
The end