She gives her husband a choice: she can remain old and ugly, but be an otherwise model wife, or she can be young and beautiful, but he must take his chances when suitors call. The knight has evidently learned his lesson because he wisely allows her to choose. She tells him that, since he has given her the power, she will be both loyal and by the morning as beautiful as any queen or empress in the world. The knight is overjoyed and the couple lives happily ever after.