The princess without any gravity hears that someone has volunteered to save the lake without any water, and she is overjoyed. She unlocks her door and allows herself to be carried to the lake, where she is placed in a boat beside the hole where the water has all gone out.  She tells the prince it is very kind of him to save the lake, and promptly falls asleep in the boat on a pillow.

Meanwhile the prince tells the king's servants to put him into the hole in the lake. The put him into the hole feet first and he sits on the edge of it. He covers the rest of the hole with his two hands. Slowly the water wanders into the lake and bumps into the boat where the princess is asleep. She wakes up and laughs with delight to see the water coming back. She tells the prince he looks rather pale and serious, and he faintly requests her to feed him something, and give him a drink. This she does cheerfully enough.

As she turns to go back to sleep, however, the prince insists she must stay awake and watch him, for her own sake, because otherwise he might lose heart and not be able to keep up his strength to stay and to die in the lake.

The water continues to rise. It reaches the prince's neck, and the princess begins to have an odd feeling. It reaches his mouth and covers his lower lip. The princess begins to feel restless, but she keeps still and watches. When the water covers his nose, the princess's eyes begin to look wild, and when the prince's head falls back, and his last breath bubbles up to the surface, she screams and dives into the water after him.

Somehow, she gets him out of the hole and into the boat and somehow, without any gravity, she rows him to shore. Someone takes them to the palace, where everyone has already had their dinner and gone to bed. The princess summons the doctor, who somehow never comes, and she and her nurse try their best to revive the prince. All that night he lies unresponsive, despite their best efforts.

In the morning, as the sun is rising, the prince opens his eyes. The princess sees he is alive and is so happy that she bursts into tears. She weeps for hours, and when she finally is able to stop crying, she finds that she can't stand up because, well, she has found her gravity.  

When the princess began to cry, the sky began to rain too, and it rained so long and so well that the lake would have flooded the kingdom if it hadn't been for the hole in it. As it filled it grew so over-heavy that it burst through into the great cave below and became twice as deep as it had used to be. In the process, the water went underneath the house of Princess Makemnoit, and brought it crashing down upon her head, so that she was buried in it, and could not be found.

The Prince and the Princess are married, and the Princess learns how to walk, and none of their children ever suffers the least loss of gravity.