Sybille of Cleves's bedchamber

I shook my head.''Don't worry about me...I will be fine but you should try and sleep a little.''

I covered her with blanket and sat on chair next to bed watching her as she sleep and hoping that she will feel better soon.

I smiled to Anne when she wakes up and spoke softly.''Yes I am here.How are you feel?''

I put a hand on her forehead and nod.''You still have a fever,my dear..''I brought a medicine to her again to drink it and then put a wet handkerchief over her forehead.

I nodded to her.''I do hope as well my sweet...You will see soon you shall feel much better.'' I said with hope in my voice.

I smiled to her and gave a little nod.''Of course I do remember...We will do that when you are better I promise.''I said softly.

I shook my head a little.''Of course not Anne,you are my sister and you never disturb.''I said softly.

I looked at her worriedly.''Come you should sleep for a little while or at leart try.''I said softly.

''That is normall Anne.Everyone is feeling like that when they are sick,even me.''I said softly and then nod.''Of course!What kind of story,you wish to hear?''I asked.

I smiled to her and gave a little nod.''A beautiful story?I think I know one.Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what
he wanted. There were
princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was
not as it should be. So he came
home again and was sad, for he
would have liked very much to
have a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm
came on; there was thunder and
lightning, and the rain poured
down in torrents. Suddenly a
knocking was heard at the city
gate, and the old king went to
open it.
It was a princess standing out
there in front of the gate. But,
good gracious! what a sight the
rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and
out again at the heels. And yet
she said that she was a real
princess.
Well, we'll soon find that out,
thought the old queen. But she
said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on
the bottom; then she took
twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the
mattresses.
On this the princess had to
lie all night. In the morning she
was asked how she had slept.
"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what
was in the bed, but I was lying
on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"
Now they knew that she was
a real princess because she had
felt the pea right through the
twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Nobody but a real princess
could be as sensitive as that.
So the prince took her for his
wife, for now he knew that he
had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.''

I smiled to her and nod.''It is very clever of Queen to do such a thing and funny of course...Do you want water,my dear?''I asked.

I stood up and poured a water into the goblet.''Here this will help''I said as I helped her to drink it,looking worriedly at her.