I know some might disagree with me, but I went back to both scenes many times and the scene where Snow is reaching up to touch Cora’s orchids (not apple tree) when Cora walks in on her is the exact picture Henry was looking at in the book at the beginning of ‘Hat Trick.’ I am 100% positive.
Everyone thought she was reaching for a locket but it is actually an unopened bud that looks like the shape of a heart that is confusing.
Henry looks so confused when he is reading this story. We have to wonder what is throwing him off. Is it the tender hearted Regina he sees in the story? Is it that he always thought, like we did, that Regina hated Snow because she was the “fairest in the land” not because of this new revelation? Is he puzzled by Cora?