“You’re a fool,” the maid said.
She finished putting her in a royal gown. “Well, I will be.”
“He’s a jester!”
The princess pulled on a motley dress. “With wit and heart!”
“You’ll trade me a courtly life, for that?”
“I trade a gilded cage,” she whispered.
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