Purely Kingdom Matters (Alfred)

The Queen of Hearts was talking to Nicholas Hatter—engaged in a conversation that came from her heart. It tackled the death of Mallory from her hands with deep regret and apologies.

This was something that afflicted Nicholas and made him upset, terribly upset that this was reality. That Mallory's death was real and the ache in his heart only throbbed further. 

And yet unbeknownst to them, unaware to Rosalyn Lockhart... one of her conversations prior to this had caused enough heartache. Oh, and it wasn't just the King of Hearts that felt dejected and grieved at her words earlier, but it was someone else.

… It may have been Blake Landrigan, the Informant who realized that the Queen of Hearts held a special relationship with this Hatter man and dismissed him to a conversation on the morrow. Which was a catastrophe as he needed to let her know it immediately and yet there was nothing he could do.