Then he told her how he had been bewitched by a wicked witch, and how no one could have delivered him from the well but herself, and that to-morrow they would go together into his kingdom.

这时，他告诉了小公主事情的原委。原来他被一个邪恶的巫婆施了魔法，除了小公主以外，谁也不能把他从水潭里解救出来。明天，他们将一道返回他自己的王国。