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In our original work, the computation of the density of liquid in a silica hydrophilic nanopore was executed by the grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulation to investigate the spatial dielectric properties of water in a confined phase. We found that the average values of the dielectric constants were very close and almost independent of the number of concentric radial shells. In response to the comment by S. Mondal and B. Bagchi, we clarify the issues of reproducibility of bulk value of the dielectric constant of water and dielectric anisotropy.