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When her sisters returned home, they told Cinderella all about the mysterious princess who had fled from the ball. Cinderella's heart beat faster when she heard how the Prince had picked up the lost glass slipper and looked at it fondly all the rest of the evening. But she said not a word.
The next morning, the news went around that the Prince would marry the maiden whose foot exactly fit the glass slipper, for it was so tiny that he was sure only the mysterious princess would wear it. When the stepsisters heard this, each one was sure that she could squeeze her foot into the slipper somehow.
A messenger was sent from house to house with the slipper, and all the young ladies tried to put it on. But they tried in vain, for it would not fit.
At last the two sisters had their turn. They tried so hard to squeeze into the slipper, that their bones cracked. The messenger was about to leave when Cinderella said, "Please, may I try to put on the slipper?"
"You!" shrieked the stepsisters. "Go back to the kitchen where you belong.!"