episode 5
The king’s son soon came up to her, and took her by the hand and danced with her and no one else; and he never left hand, but when anyone else came to ask her to dance, he said,
“This lady is dancing with me.”
Thus they danced till a late hour of the night, and then she wanted to go home; and the king’s son said,
“I shall go and take care of you to your home.”
For he wanted to see where the beautiful maid lived.
But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards home, and the prince followed her; then she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door.
So he waited till her father came home, and told him that the unknown maiden who had been at the feast had hidden herself in the pigeon-house.
But when they had broken open the door they found no one with in; and as they came back into the house, Cinderella lay, as she had run as quickly as she could through the pigeon-house and on to the hazel-tree, and had there taken off her beautiful clothes and laid them beneath the tree, that the bird might carry them away; and had seated herself amid the ashes again her little old frock.
The next day, when the feast was again held, and her father, mother and three sisters were gone, Cinderella went to the hazel-tree, and al happened as the evening before.
