Possible Clues:

• Always and always
• __ so slightly
• Penultimate word in many a fairy tale
• Word before after?
• Happily-after connection
• Penultimate word in some fairy tales
• ''. . . lived happily ___ after''
• "Be it___so humble ..."
• Word in a Grimm ending?
• 'When will you ___ learn?'