Produce a sentence which has a cefr level of "c1" and starts with: "in spite of".
In spite of the influx of visitors that afternoon and the requests for information over the phone; in spite of the ready response of the absent members to her invitation for that evening; in spite of the explanation, in which she concurred, that the midnight watch had been a drill, she still felt the gnawing discomfort of a prediction not fulfilled.