I find your collection of folk tales quite brilliant, actually.

Thank you.

But I must say, I was terribly disturbed when I read your version of the Little Cinder Girl.

Well, there are those who swear that Perrault's telling with its Fairy Godmother and um... [laughs] magic pumpkins would be closer to the truth.

Some claim the shoe was made of fur. Others insist it was glass. Well, I guess we'll never know.

Forgive me, Your Majesty, might I inquire about the painting? She's really quite, um... extraordinary.

Her name was Danielle de Barbarac. [reaches inside the box the footman has brought to her] And this was her "glass" slipper.

[The Grimm Brothers look at each other in shock.]

Perhaps you allow me to set the record straight.

Then it's true, the story.

Yes, quite. Now then, what was that phrase you use? Oh, yes. Once upon a time, there lived a young girl who loved her father very much...