Georgina and her companions reached Gisors on the afternoon of 2 September 1880. Four of the orphans were still in the nuns’ orphanage there: Pauline (‘improved’), Beryl (‘blind in one eye’), Sapho/Katie (‘very pretty and nice and clever’), and Baucis (‘grown immensely’). Rosie, the eldest girl, had died of typhoid fever earlier in the year, whilst the two boys, Dagobert and Merthyr, had been boarded out in the town. None of them could speak a word of English.

Once again, Georgina's spirits were refreshed by the calm, quiet atmosphere of the convent. It was ‘a port of refuge, of peace, of comfort’ – and not expensive. She and Angèle were given ‘splendid’ lodgings in the hospice: a salon with two bedrooms, with ‘heaps of cupboards’ for their belongings. ‘I would like to spend the rest of my life here’, Georgina told her mother, ‘but it is my duty to live with my husband.’ She was not best pleased when Angèle insisted that the two Duprat children could not possibly be put into the orphanage, but must stay with them. James Salsbury sent newspapers from London, and Georgina wrote and received letters almost every day. In November she learned that ‘Mrs Weldon's Choir’ had been dissolved and merged into the ‘Dilettante Choir’. The impending lawsuit against Harry was never far from her mind: she bombarded Thomas Disney Leaver with instructions and busied herself collecting and copying letters that might be useful. Towards the end of the month, she was ‘horrified and disgusted beyond measure’ to receive a letter from brother Dal telling her that Harry was accusing her of adultery, having found an ‘incriminating’ letter addressed to Sir Henry Thompson amongst some papers that had been picked up at Tavistock House. This letter, which was fourteen years old, appears to have been Georgina's reply to a declaration of love from Sir Henry, which Harry had forbidden her to send. She believed that it had been destroyed at the time. Georgina, who now realised that she had been naive and unwise in allowing Sir Henry to get so close to her, told Dal that it was all Harry's fault, as he had encouraged her to lead the older man on.