"You didn't think this storyline would end without her, did you?"
"You know, for a second? I thought it would."
I don't even know what I'm paraphrasing, there. It's just what leap to mind, like some sort of, er... CONFIDENT Fox. Yes.
Anyway, yes! Grace enters the story. Her equivalent in the 1697 Cinderella was exactly no one, so as to why she's here, your guess... Okay, your guess isn't as good as mine, but if I WASN'T cheating by being the author, your guess would have been as good as mine.