And the prince said: "Oh, if _you_ wish it, you shall have the horns and tail of a Firedrake to hang up in your hall, to-morrow evening!" Then she asked if it was not very dangerous work, Firedrake hunting; and he said it was nothing, when you knew the trick of it: and he asked her if she would but give him a rose out of her bouquet; and, in short, he made himself so agreeable and _unaffected_, that she thought him very nice indeed.
For, even a clever person can be nice when he likes--above all, when he is not thinking about himself.

And now the prince was thinking of nothing in the world but the daughter of the English ambassador, and how to please her.

He got introduced to her father too, and quite won his heart; and, at last, he was invited to dine next day at the Embassy.
In Pantouflia, it is the custom that a ball must not end while one of the royal family goes on dancing.

_This_ ball lasted till the light came in, and the birds were singing out of doors, and all the mothers present were sound asleep.

Then nothing would satisfy the prince, but that they all should go home singing through the streets; in fact, there never had been so merry a dance in all Pantouflia.