What is suggested by the phrase, her tears softened him' in the excerpt below? Then she grieved sorely at her misfortune, and said she would give him all the wealth of the kingdom if he would let her off, but in vain, till at last her tears softened him, and he said, "I will give you three days' grace, and if during that time you tell me my name, you shall keep your child." The queen wanted to trick the little man. The little man was moved with compassion, The little man was afraid of angering the king. The queen's child was already gone. for anything