release. They had not proceeded far when the Prince heard a
crack as if something had broken behind the carriage; so he put
his head out of the window and asked Henry what was broken,
and Henry answered, “It was not the carriage, my master, but a
band which I bound round my heart when it was in such grief
because you were changed into a frog.”
Twice afterwards on the journey there was the same noise, and
each time the Prince thought that it was some part of the carriage
that had given way; but it was only the breaking of the bands
which bound the heart of the trusty Henry, who was _ thence¬
torward free and happy.