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Bear laid himself down to sleep in his kennel, and Friskarina scampered off into the garden, to watch for Tibb's descent over the wall. Punctually as the great bell of the palace rung, Tibb's ears appeared among the top leaves of the ivy, and in a second she was at her benefactress's side, looking so much less miserable than she did at first, that it quite rejoiced Friskarina to look at her.
What a strange old lady; thought Friskarina, what can she possibly mean? Meanwhile, the princess had been looking out of the window, and perceived her fairy aunt, with a little secret consternation, for she was rather afraid of her; however, she hastened down stairs to receive her, wondering all the time what she could be come for.
Friskarina, on the honor of a cat, I am ashamed of you. 'I certainly did enter into conversation with her, replied Friskarina, plucking up a little spirit; 'for I asked her where she lived, and why she was so thin and dirty. 'I wonder, said Glumdalkin, 'how you could bear to go near her. 'But, one couldn't help it, you know, said Friskarina, 'when she looked so very wretched.
Friskarina meekly replied, that there would certainly be no thieving in the case; for that their dinner was all their own, and if they did not eat it all, it would only be left on the grass, to moulder away; and she really could not think the princess would have any objection to their relieving the poor cat's want, out of their own abundance.
That put her in mind of her new friend; and she reflected, with great satisfaction, that poor Tibb certainly was not nearly so hungry that night as she had been before: and then she began to wonder where the princess could have been going to, and whether she would see the poor old woman at the cottage: and Friskarina thought what a fine thing it must be to be a princess, and to be able to help people who were in distress.
'I did not know whether I should see you this morning, pursued Friskarina, 'I thought you might be sitting by the fire all day, as it is so very cold. 'Dear ma'am, we have no fire! exclaimed poor Tibb, as if astonished at the very idea of such a luxury; 'my mistress won't have a fire till she wants to boil her dinner.
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