This daughter has since been
married; yet the princess still does her the honour to love her,
and would fain see her, but without anybody's perceiving her coming
in or out.'
The nurse would have gone on, but the officer cried, 'Say no more;
I will with pleasure do anything to oblige the princess; go and
fetch your daughter, or send for her about midnight, and the gate
shall be open to you.'
As soon as night came, the nurse went to look for her son Marzavan,
and having found him, she dressed him so artificially in women's
clothes that nobody could know he was a man. She carried him along
with her, and the officer verily believing it was her daughter,
admitted them together.
The nurse, before she presented Marzavan, went to the princess, and
said, 'Madam, this is not a woman I have brought to you; it is my
son Marzavan in disguise, newly arrived from his travels, and he
having a great desire to kiss your hand, I hope your highness will
admit him to that honour.'
'What! my brother Marzavan,' said the princess, with great joy:
'come hither,' cried she, 'and take off that veil; for it is not
unreasonable, surely, that a brother and a sister should see each
other without covering their faces.
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