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He was so glad to see Thumbelina although, when she told him how she hated to marry the mole and live deep underground where the sun never shone, she could not hold back her tears. “Now that the cold winter is coming,” the swallow told her, “I shall fly far, far away to the warm countries.
However, Thumbelina does not want to live underground and when taking a last look at the sunshine above ground on the day of her wedding, she is rescued by the swallow who takes her...
Thumbelina understands that she does not want to live with an ugly toad, she is grateful to the fish, gnawing a leaf stalk. Thumbelina sympathizes with the moth, the culprit of misfortune and, possibly, the death of which became a girl, tying the moth with a belt to the sheet.
Thumbelina doesn't want to live in the mud, as decorated as it was. She's soon freed from the toads by some fishes, who see her crying on the lily pad the toads have left her on.
Eventually Thumbelina sees little choice but to agree, but cannot bear the thought of the mole keeping her underground and never seeing the sun. At the last minute, Thumbelina escapes the situation by fleeing to a far land with the swallow.
The mouse thinks Thumbelina should marry her neighbor, a smart and well-to-do mole. Thumbelina finds the idea of being married to such a creature hateful. After all, he spends all of his days underground and never sees the sun or sky.
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Thumbelina takes pity on the bird and, when everyone else is sleeping, sneaks back underground to cover it with a blanket she made out of hay. The blanket warms the bird and it turns out that it was not actually dead, just very cold and unwell, so Thumbelina nurses it back to health in secret.
