It really was fortunate, the more the princess thought it over, that the peas hadn't been frozen. That would've made them cold and damp when they struck her head, and she imagined it would've been a much less pleasant experience all around--not that it had been very pleasant at all to begin with, mind--to be cold and damp along with having a headache.

Fortunately, though, the peas had been both dry and dried, and so that solved at least two of the problems she'd previously been considering, though it didn't address the matter of the headache, but of course she assumed that would go away on its own soon enough, and so that would be no trouble at all, either. Still, she knew she ought to answer herself, rather than just narrating, and so she said, "No, they weren't frozen, fortunately. Just regular old dried peas."