As d'Avaux had announced these names and titles, Eliza had come close to losing her nerve for the first time in memory. She was remembering Hanover, where the Doctor had planted her in a steeple near the Herrenhausen Palace, so that she could gaze upon Sophie through a field-glass. Yet this d'Avaux – who didn't know Eliza nearly as well as the Doctor did – had taken her straight into the Dutch court's inner sanctum. How could d'Avaux introduce her to persons of royal degree – when he didn't have the first idea who she was in the first place?