When they were all ready they looked carefully at the soldier. But he had closed his eyes and did not move or stir. He kept himself quite as much as he could. But he was listening them and waiting their secret. So they felt themselves safe enough. The eldest then went to her bed and tapped it. Whereupon it immediately sank into the earth. And one after the other they descended through the opening, the eldest going first. Until the last girl, the poor soldier kept himself quite and didn't move.