"Oh yes," answered the maiden, "but the fawn must come too. I could not leave him." And the King said, "He shall remain with you as long as you live, and shall lack nothing." Then the fawn came bounding in, and the sister tied the cord of rushes to him, and led him by her own hand out of the little house.

The King put the beautiful maiden on his horse, and carried her to his castle, where the wedding was held with great pomp; so she became lady Queen, and they lived together happily for a long while; the fawn was well tended and cherished, and he gambolled about the castle garden. Now the wicked stepmother, whose fault it was that the children were driven out into the world, never dreamed but that the sister had been eaten up by wild beasts in the forest, and that the brother, in the likeness of a fawn, had been slain by the hunters. But when she heard that they were so happy, and that things had gone so well with them, jealousy and envy arose in her heart, and left her no peace, and her chief thought was how to bring misfortune upon them. Her own daughter, who was as ugly as sin, and had only one eye, complained to her, and said, "I never had the chance of being a Queen."

"愿意，"姑娘说，"可是小鹿得跟我一起去。我离不开它。"国王说："它可以永远呆在你的身边，而且什么也不会缺少的。"就在这时，小鹿跑了进来，姐姐给它拴上灯芯草绳，牵着它，跟着国王一起离开了林中的小屋。
国王把这可爱的姑娘放到马背上，把她带回了王宫，并且在那里举行了盛大的婚礼。 她现在成了王后，和国王一起幸福地生活了许多年。 小鹿受到了细心的照料，在王宫的花园里跑来跑去。
可是那个邪恶的继母，自从两个孩子因为她而离家出走之后，以为小姐姐肯定在森林中被野兽撕成了碎片，小弟弟也肯定被猎人们当做小鹿射死了，可现在听到他们生活得很幸福、很美满，嫉妒和怨恨像两把烈火在她的心中燃烧，使她片刻也不得安宁。她成天盘算着怎么再次给姐弟俩带来不幸。她自己的女儿丑得像黑夜一样，而且只有一只眼睛，这时也责怪她说："她当王后！这种好事应该属于我！"