Then it was that she renewed her falling locks, and appeared all at once with the magnificent crown of auburn hair which was henceforth to astonish beholders.
More than ten years had now elapsed since that serious illness.

Lady Ogram's age was seventy-nine.

Medical science declared her a marvel, and prudently held it possible that she might live to ninety.
What to do with her great possessions had long been a harassing subject of thought with Lady Ogram.

She wished to use them for some praiseworthy purpose, which, at the same time, would perpetuate her memory.

More than twenty years ago she had instructed her solicitor to set on foot an inquiry for surviving members of her own family.