Chapter Two

1. And at last, the day before her seventeenth birthday came, and she was merry and rejoiced greatly in her heart.

2. And, lo, she did come upon a door, secretive and hidden from all until this day.

3. And she opened it on her birthday, and looked in, and there was a flight of stairs, and they led up unto a door.

4. And Aurora climbed the stairs, and did open the door, and looked in.

5. And behold, she saw a woman of old age, sitting on a stool, spinning, yet Aurora knew not what it was.

6. For her father, when she was born, had ordered all spinning wheels to be burned, so that Aurora had never seen nor heard of them.

7. And she came up to her and asked her what she was doing, and why she was there.

8. And she answered her, 'I am spinning upon a spinning wheel, and I am here because I can spin nowhere else.'

9. Now this thing perplexed Aurora, so that she inquired of her if she might spin herself.

10. And the old woman asked her, 'Now, thou shalt spin.' and she showed Aurora how she might go about it.

11. And Aurora did what she was told, and yea, she pricked her finger upon the spinning wheel, so that she fell down, and slept a deep sleep.