When she awoke next morning, and found that prince Kummir al Zummaun was not by her, she cried out in such a manner to her women, that she soon brought them to her bed.  Her nurse, who arrived first, desired to be informed if any thing disagreeable had happened to her.

“Tell me,” said the princess, “what is become of the young man that has passed the night with me, and whom I love with all my soul?” “Madam,” replied the nurse, “we cannot understand your highness, unless you will be pleased to explain yourself.”

“A young man, the handsomest and most amiable,” said the princess, “slept with me last night, whom, with all my caresses, I could not awake; I ask you where he is?"’

“Madam,"answered the nurse, “your highness asks us these questions in jest.  I beseech you to rise.”  “I am in earnest,” said the princess, “and I must know where this young man is.”  “Madam,” insisted the nurse, “you were alone when you went to bed last night; and how any man could come to you without our knowledge we cannot imagine, for we all lay about the door of your chamber, which was locked, and I had the key in my pocket.”

At this the princess lost all patience,and taking her nurse by the hair of her head, and giving her two or three sound cuffs, cried, “You shall tell me where this young man is, you old sorceress, or I will put you to death.”

The nurse struggled to get from her, and at last succeeded.  She went immediately with tears in her eyes, and her face all bloody, to complain to the queen, who was not a little surprised to see her in this condition, and asked who had misused her.

“Madam,” began the nurse, “you see how the princess has treated me; she had certainly murdered me, if I had not had the good fortune to escape out of her hands.”  She then related what had been the cause of all that violent passion in the princess.  The queen was surprised at her account, and could not guess how she came to be so infatuated as to take that for a reality which could be no other than a dream.  “Your majesty must conclude from all this,” continued the nurse, “that the princess is out of her senses.  You will think so yourself if you will go and see her.”

The queen’s affection for the princess deeply interested her in what she heard; she ordered the nurse to follow her; and they immediately went together to the princess’s palace.

The queen of China sat down by her daughter’s bed-side on her arrival in her apartment, and after she had informed herself about her health began to ask her what had made her so angry with her nurse, as to treat her in the manner she had done.  “Daughter,” said she, “this is not right, and a great princess like you should not suffer herself to be so transported by passion,”

“Madam,” replied the princess, “I plainly perceive your majesty is come to mock me; but I declare I will never let you rest till you consent to my marrying the young man who lay with me last night.  You must know where he is, and therefore I beg of your majesty to let him come to me again.”