Sometimes she lived at Simla, the summer capital of the British Raj. There she entertained Forster in November 1912. He noted a characteristic ambivalence in her manner, saying that she was "clever and odd – [at times very (crossed out)] nice to talk to alone, but at times the Social Manner descended like a pall." His letters also speak to Duncan's continued involvement with political ideas: "I don't talk about politics [...] although at the Cotes, I have been living in them."
