Now I ask a favour of you, that you will speak no more of this matter either to me or to any other, man or woman, unless I should speak of it first.

Let it be as though it were indeed a dream." "It is granted," I said as I rose and clothed myself, not in my own garments which had been taken from me in the palace, but in the splendid silken robes that had been set upon me after I was loosed from the boat.
When this was done and I had washed and combed my long, curling hair, we descended to a lower chamber and called for the woman of the house to bring us food, of which I ate heartily.

As we finished our meal we heard shouts in the street outside of, "Make way for the servants of the King!" and looking through the window-place, saw a great cavalcade approaching, headed by two princes on horseback.
"Now I pray that yonder Tyrant has not changed his mind and that these do not come to take me back to the boat," I said in a low voice.
"Have no fear, Master," answered Bes, "seeing that you have touched his sceptre and drunk from his cup which he gave to you.

After these things no harm can happen to you in any land he rules.

Therefore be at ease and deal with these fellows proudly." A minute later two princes entered followed by slaves who bore many things, among them those hide bags filled with gold that had been set beneath me in the boat.