Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old.

She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.

She was one of those old women who are undoubtedly old women,--who in the remembrance of younger people seem always to have been old women,--but on whom old age appears to have no debilitating effects.

If the hand of Lady Linlithgow ever trembled, it trembled from anger;--if her foot ever faltered, it faltered for effect.

In her way Lady Linlithgow was a very powerful human being.