The man followed her, but he did not speak.
On, on they went, through forest and meadow, up hill and down dale.
"By and by the man made a movement as though he would take hold of her to stop her.

But the woman warded him off with a wave of her hand.

'Touch me not,' she said.

'If you touch me, you must die too!' She stood and suckled the child once more, then laid him gently in her husband's arms.

'Go home,' she said, and faded from his sight.
"Home he went with the child, full of awe and fear.
"A few days afterwards the child died, though there was nothing the matter with it.