"It is you!' the Prince cried.

'You are the one who saved me when I lay like a dead man beside the sea.' He clasped the blushing bride of his choice in his arms. 'Oh, I am happier than a man should be!' he told his little mermaid. 'My fondest dream - that which I never dared to hope - has come true. You will share in my great joy, for you love me more than anyone does.'

The little mermaid kissed his hand and felt that her heart was beginning to break. For the morning after his wedding day would see her dead and turned to watery foam."