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educated by the Scholars here when they've got a bit of spare time. Being as they're here already, they're probably free."
"And does your uncle Lord Asriel have any plans for you?" said the other lady, who was a Scholar at the other women's college.
"Yes," said Lyra. "I expect so. Not school, though. He's going to take me to the North next time he goes."
"I remember him telling me," said Mrs. Coulter.
Lyra blinked. The two female Scholars sat up very slightly, though their demons, either well behaved or torpid, did no more than flick their eyes at each other.
"I met him at the Royal Arctic Institute," Mrs. Coulter went on. "As a matter of fact, it's partly because of that meeting that I'm here today."
"Are you an explorer too?" said Lyra.
"In a kind of way. I've been to the North several times. Last year I spent three months in Greenland making observations of the Aurora."
That was it; nothing and no one else existed now for Lyra. She gazed at Mrs. Coulter with awe, and listened rapt and silent to her tales of igloo building, of seal hunting, of negotiating with the Lapland witches. The two female Scholars had nothing so exciting to tell, and sat in silence until the men came in.
Later, when the guests were preparing to leave, the Master said, "Stay behind,Link, Lyra. I'd like to talk to you for a minute or two. Go to my study, child; sit down there and wait for me."
Puzzled, tired, exhilarated, Lyra did as he told her. Cousins the manservant showed her in, and pointedly left the door open so that he could see what she was up to from the hall, where he was helping people on with their coats. Lyra watched for Mrs. Coulter, but she didn't see her, and then the Master came into the study and shut the door.
He sat down heavily in the armchair by the fireplace. His daemon flapped up to the chair back and sat by his head, her old hooded eyes on Lyra. The lamp hissed gently as the Master said:
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