The price is high, but it's a perfect situation, and I'm afraid it'll be going to the builders if something isn't soon done." Lady Ogram would have purchased the site in question long since, for it was her purpose to act decisively in this matter of the much-needed hospital, but it happened that the unspeakable Robb was the man who had first drawn public attention to the suitability of Burgess Hill, and Lady Ogram was little inclined to follow where Robb had led.

She hoped to find a yet better site, and, by undertaking at once both purchase of land and construction of the building, with a liberal endowment added, to leave in the lurch all philanthropic rivals.

For years she had possessed plans and pictures of "The Lady Ogram Hospital." She cared for no enterprise, however laudable, in which she could only be a sharer; the initiative must be hers, and hers the glory.
Discreetly, Dr.Baldwin worked round to the subject of his patient's health.

He hoped she was committing no imprudence in the way of excessive mental exertion.

It seemed to him--perhaps he was mistaken--that talk agitated her more than usual.