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Updated: May 5, 2025
'I love you, Theeda! said he. 'See! with my whole heart! But all that day Theeda's sadness did not wholly pass away; and each morning afterwards, when Oscar first came into the room, she would meet him with a kind of timorousness, and would not be happy until he had kissed her through the crystal, and had told her again that he loved her. She was by no means an idle little maiden, however.
Oscar also brought sea-snails, with brightly tinted shells, which crawled slowly about, measuring their way with their one soft foot, and stretching out little transparent horns in front, like children feeling their way in the dark. Besides these there was a hermit crab, which lived in a pearl shell very much like Theeda's, but only about a sixth part as big.
'I think, now, he said, 'that the wanderer in the forest must have been myself; and the precious pearl that was given to him out of the fountain was you. But who was the blind and dumb man with the onion? At that Theeda's head dropped, and she sank slowly down on the sand, and she hid her face in her hands. 'What is the matter, Theeda? cried Oscar; 'dearest Theeda, what has happened?
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