Some of them actually did; they gathered at her portrait and took their pictures there, and then had lunch together, I think. One of them wrote to her about it: “I believed that for me there would never again be friends, or love, or trust, or joy. I thought my life was a matter of waiting for it to stop. The Duchess, her joinings, her faith, her words, her friendship, her insistence I not surrender—she has made a miracle and I can never, ever repay her. Thank you, your grace, for all this love and light you have brought to me.”
