But she never could discover the best way of doing this.

She has an independent mind, and likes to strike out ways for herself.

Ordinary Charities didn't satisfy her; to tell the truth, she wanted not only to do substantial good, but to do it in a way which should perpetuate her name--cause her to be more talked about after her death than she has been in her lifetime.
Time went on, and she still could hit upon nothing brilliant; all she had decided was to build and endow a great hospital at Hollingford, to be called by her name, and this, for several reasons, she kept postponing.

Then came her acquaintance with me--you know the story.

She was troubling about the decay of the village, and trying to hit on remedies.