Penelope doesn't stop working. She trusts Anna to deal with this. She does, however, extend her hand and offer a little bit of a boon. There's the faintest sound of a ticking clock...slowly, slowly, then speeding up rapidly. The Haste spell settles over Anna, making her movements near a blur to anyone observing from the outside...but to her? It's as though her opponents are moving slow as molasses moving uphill in February.