She was first visible during the third course

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She was first visible during the third course—roast duck, if Isabella remembered correctly, though the memory of the meal had blurred at the edges the way all memories of evenings at Ashford House see

The woman was seated in the far corner of the dining room, on a carved walnut settee upholstered in faded crimson. She wore white—a white dress that might have been fashionable twenty years ago and was certainly fashionable now, Isabella could not tell. Her hair was pinned severely back from a face so pale that Isabella wondered, not for the first time, whether she was seeing properly or...

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