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your decisions usually end up being the right ones.” The queen laughed. “I suppose that is what makes a woman.” Suddenly, she became quiet and serious again as she continued. “But there is one place I have not always made the right decisions, and that is in raising my daughter.” “But is having a soldier tutor her the right thing?” Lord High Chamberlain asked. She spoke slowly, as if she had pondered this for a long time, and still did. “You have always been wise in counseling me in political matters, Matthew, but this time, I am looking at what is best for Marie - not as her Queen, but as her mother.” Lord High Chamberlain turned away as he rolled his eyes and spoke somewhat under his breath. “She dances like a cow in a mud hole.” “What was that, Matthew?” the queen asked. Lord High Chamberlain cleared his throat. “I was just saying that the young princess says she would rather be a man than a woman, and tends to feel that dancing is, how should I say, ridiculous.” “She can learn.” “She’d rather climb trees and fight than learn philosophy or listen to music.” The queen nodded. “That may be true, and I don’t want to destroy her free spirit, just broaden it.” “What are you looking for this young man to do?” Lord High Chamberlain asked. 19