"That is it," she agrees. She had not thought of it in those terms, but they perfectly capture her feelings. She does not resent her resumed duties here in Edoras, does not feel as caged by them as once she did, and yet...and yet.

She laughs, just a little. "It is strange, particularly when I remember how much I wished to leave them at first, how I hated my enforced idleness. And now I long for a little such time, even if it were but a single afternoon!"