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Meanwhile the Duchess had dropped Julie Le Breton at Lady Henry's door. Julie groped her way upstairs through the sleeping house. She found her room in darkness, and she turned on no light. There was still a last glimmer of fire, and she sank down by it, her long arms clasped round her knees, her head thrown back as though she listened still to words in her ears.
"Oh, such a child! Such a dear, simple-minded child! Report engaged her to at least ten different people at Simla. She had a crowd of cavaliers there -- I was one of them. The whole place adored her. She is a very rare little creature, but well looked after, I can tell you -- a long array of guardians in the background."