now the curse is ended, and I remember everything. So now I shall
go to the Nishadha mountain to see my father. Of course now I
remember how to fly. And you are at liberty to stay here, or to go
back to your own kingdom."

Then the king was sad, and he begged her thus: "My beautiful
wife, do not go for seven days. Be as kind as you are beautiful. Let
me be happy with you in the garden, and forget my longings. Then
you may go to your father, and I will go home." So he persuaded
her, and was happy with her for six days in the garden. And the
lilies in the ponds looked like longing eyes, and the ripples like
hands raised to detain them, and the cries of swans and cranes
seemed to say: "Do not leave us and go away."

On the seventh day the king cleverly led his wife to the pool from
which one could get back to the world. There he threw his arms
about her and plunged into the pool, and came up with her in the
pool in the garden of his own palace.

The gardeners saw that the king had come back with a wife, and
they joyfully ran and told the counsellor Farsight. He came and fell
at the king's feet, and then led the king and the fairy into the
palace. And the counsellor and the people thought: "Wonderful!
The king has won the fairy whom others could see only for a
moment like the lightning in the sky. Whatever is written in one's
fate, that comes true, however impossible it may be."

But when Moonlight saw that the king was in his own country, and
the seven days were over, she thought she would fly away like
other fairies. But she could not remember how. Then she became