[She gives him a somewhat fond smile in return -- of course he would put it like that, an overstep of propriety... but with Anne, those very rarely are true oversteps of anything; after all, most would say the way she frequently either hugs her or holds her hand are oversteps of propriety, and yet Anne never minds.]
I'm sure she's happier with something to do. [And she is -- Anne is remarkably different from the king in that she actually seems to want to help, want to make herself useful instead of using her status as a permission to do nothing.]