Though violent of temper, she had never made her husband suffer from this characteristic; to be sure, Sir Quentin was from the first, submissive, and rarely gave her occasion for displeasure.

Over the baronet's grave in the little churchyard of Shawe she raised a costly monument.

Its sole inscription was the name of the deceased, with the dates of his birth and death; Lady Ogram knew not, indeed, what else to add.
Fully another ten years elapsed before the widow's health showed any sign of failing.

It was whilst passing a winter in Cornwall, that she suffered a slight paralytic attack, speedily, in appearance, overcome, but the beginning of steady decline.

Her intellectual activity had seemed to increase as time went on.