"Gine, would you please stay outside and wait for me when I enter the Hatter's shop?"
Requests. It wasn't that often that he'd hear the Queen of Hearts use the word 'please' because most often than not, things often went her way and she didn't have to say anything else. She treated him differently, of course—but it didn't change the fact that most of the time, she still expected him to heed her orders.
He didn't mind doing it at all.
But recently, she had started using the word and other niceties more and it wasn't because of him. It was all due to the influence of other people, from the servant woman at the kitchen to even this man that she sought to visit, and that was simply because the man's friend said it was so.
… Other people.
