Huon and Sherasmin, after a long search, finally found entertainment in a little hut, where an old woman, the mother of the princess's attendant, entertained them by relating that the princess was very reluctant to marry.

She also told them that Rezia had lately been troubled by a dream, in which she had seen herself in the guise of a hind and pursued through a pathless forest by Babican.

In this dream she was saved and restored to her former shape by a radiant little creature, who rode in a glistening silver car, drawn by leopards.

He was accompanied by a fair-haired knight, whom he presented to her as her future bridegroom.
"The shadow flies; but from her heart again He never fades--the youth with golden hair; Eternally his image hovers there, Exhaustless source of sweetly pensive pain, In nightly visions, and in daydreams shown." WIELAND, _Oberon_ (Sotheby's tr.).
Huon listened in breathless rapture, for he now felt assured that the princess Rezia was the radiant creature he had seen in his dream, and that Oberon intended them for each other.

He therefore assured the old woman that the princess should never marry the detested Babican.