"She could see her father's palace.

The lights had been snuffed out in the great ballroom, and doubtless everyone in the palace was asleep, but she dared not go near them, now that she was mute and was leaving her home forever.

Her heart felt as if it would break with grief. She went into the garden, took one flower from each of her sisters' little plots, blew a thousand kisses toward the palace, and then mounted up through the dark blue sea."