Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what it was to be blown by a fresh breeze on a sun-swept moorland like a heather flower. The hot-house shelters from all chills and is full of perfume, but you can see no horizon from it; that alone is the joy of the moorland.
As before Ouida used her locations as inspiration for the setting and characters in her novels. She was an animal lover and rescuer and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. A.
