“She took the Queen by the hand and led her to heaven, and showed her there her two eldest children, who smiled at her, and were playing with the ball of the world. When the Queen rejoiced thereat, the Virgin Mary said, " Is thy hearty not yet softened? If thou wilt own that thou openedst the, forbidden door, I will give thee back thy two little sons." But for the third time the Queen answered, " No, I did not open the forbidden door."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 3 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan