They backed towards the door, nodding and beaming at anyone who looked at them, and a minute later were hurrying back up the passageway full of black candles.
'Well, master was reading in bed and fell asleep, so he must have knocked the candle over It set fire to the sheets, but luckily he managed to put the flames out with some water.
The little maiden, with the blue eyes, and with Elder-blossoms in her hair, sat in the tree, nodded to both of them, and said, " To-day is the fiftieth anniversary! "