"I'm happy then," the little girl said before fleeing.

With what Leah had said, Anne couldn't stop laughing.

"Are you seriously laughing at your mother right now?"

"Please accept my apologies, I couldn't take it any longer. She'd been pleading for one for months and I assumed she'd forgotten about it."

"She doesn't appear to be the type to forget," she observed.

Someone then approached her and informed her that the queen desired to see her, so she left Anne and ...