"Yes, thank you Dr. Reid." She doesn't treat his rejection of tea with any sort of suspicion. It's indeed very late, and Mary is just glad that she's getting him to rest.

After the two of them have washed up, she takes the crook of one of his arms in her hand as they head slowly back to her room.

"This was not the sort of welcome that I was anticipating from Her Majesty," she says.