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`` Huzoor , Huzoor , '' he said , in a whisper of delight . He knew very well what had happened in Cawnpore , though he knew nothing of the month or the day , and cared little in what year it had happened . `` There were 206 women and children , English women , English children , shut up in the Bibigarh . At five o'clock -- and it is well to remember the hour , Ahmed Ismail -- at five o'clock in the evening the five men of the Nana 's bodyguard went into the Bibigarh and the doors were closed upon them . It was dark when they came out again and shut the doors behind them , saying that all were dead . But it was not true . There was an Englishwoman alive in the Bibigarh , and Sirdar Khan came back in the night and took her away . ''