so splendidly dressed that every one wondered who she could
be, and hardly anyone listened to what the priest was saying, for they
were all looking far too much at her, and the Prince himself liked her
so well that he could not take his eyes off her for an instant. As she
was walking out of church the Prince followed her and shut the church
door after her, and thus he kept one of her gloves in his hand. Then she
went away and mounted her horse again; the Prince again followed her,
and asked her whence she came.

'Oh! I am from Bathland,' said Kari. And when the Prince took out the
glove and wanted to give it back to her, she said:

'Darkness behind me, but light on my way, That the Prince may not see
where I'm going to-day!'

The Prince had never seen the equal of that glove, and he went far
and wide, asking after the country which the proud lady, who rode away
without her glove, had said that she came from, but there was no one who
could tell him where it lay.

Next Sunday some one had to take up a towel to the Prince.

'Ah! may I have leave to go up with that?' said Kari.

'What would be the use of that?' said the others who were in the
kitchen; 'you saw what happened last time.'

Kari would not give in, but went on begging for leave till she got it,
and then she ran up the stairs so that her wooden gown clattered again.
Out came the Prince, and when he saw that it was Kari, he snatched the
towel from her and flung it right in her eyes.

'Be off at once, you ugly Troll,' said he; 'do you think that I will
have a towel that has been touched by your dirty fingers?'

After that the Prince went to church, and Kari also asked leave to go.
They all asked how she could want to go to church when she had nothing
to wear but that wooden gown, which was so black and hideous. But Kari
said she thought the priest was such a good man at preaching that she
got so much benefit from what he said, and at last she got leave.

She went to the rock and knocked, whereupon out came the man and gave
her a gown which was much more magnificent than the first. It was
embroidered with silver all over it, and it shone like the silver wood,
and he gave her also a most beautiful horse, with housings embroidered
with silver, and a bridle of silver too.

When the King's daughter got to church all the people were standing
outside upon the hillside, and all of them wondered who on earth she
could be, and the Prince was on the alert in a m