GOODY. And now she has driven you away!
ELIZA (_nodding_). If only I could find my dear brothers!
GOODY. You may hear something about them very soon.
ELIZA (_quickly_). Do you know where they are? Tell me! I pray you tell me!
GOODY (_shaking her head mysteriously_). I cannot say where they are. I
only know what they are.
ELIZA. I do not understand--
GOODY. The wicked queen has turned your brothers into wild swans.
ELIZA. Wild swans?
GOODY (_nodding_). I saw them yesterday, at sunrise, flying out over the
sea. Each swan wore a gold crown on his head.
ELIZA. The queen could not take their crowns from them!
GOODY. As the swans flew upward, their eleven crowns glittered like eleven
suns. My eyes were dazzled. I was obliged to look away. At that moment the
swans disappeared.
ELIZA (_sadly to herself_). My poor brothers! I shall never see them again.
GOODY (_suddenly_). Do you see those great blue bluffs to the south?
ELIZA. Yes; the sea is dashing against them.
GOODY. In those bluffs, back from the shore, is a cave. Go at once to that
cave and enter.
ELIZA. And what shall I do there, good woman?
GOODY. Perhaps you may learn how to break the spell over your brothers.
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