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Before revealing herself to him, she asked the chef not to salt any of the banquet dishes.

“I want you to garnish every plate without salt mites.”

“That would be a rare bad thing,” says the cook.

“It doesn’t mean,” she says.

“Very good,” says the cook.

Cap Orach’s father tasted one tasteless dish after another and broke down in tears at the banquet. “Now I see that she loved me more than anything else,” he exclaimed.

Then his daughter revealed herself to him, and he forgave her everything.

Quotations from the translation of Cap o’Rushes by Joseph Jacobs. Wikisource.