Shortly after arriving at Leap she took part in an all ladies cricket match an event most likely instigated by Mrs Darby amongst her new friends and neighbors. She was intelligent, outspoken, high spirited and known to ride and shoot as good as any man. Although young and small in stature Mrs Darby would prove to be no shrinking violet of a bride.
On 6 November 1889 at the age of twenty she married Jonathan Charles Darby, fifteen years her senior, and heir to Leap Castle and the Darby estates in King’s Co/Co. Before Mildred got engaged she ran off and joined the Salvation Army with the intention of tending to London’s poor. She was the youngest of six children, educated at Oxford and afterwards set her heart on a literary career and this would be difficult as her parents were Plymouth Brethren and higher education was not allowed for a woman. Mildred Henrietta Gordon Dill was born on 13 March 1869 daughter of Dr Richard Augusta Caroline Dill, of Birchwood, Brighton, England. On the gallery, leaning with ‘hands’ resting on its rail, I saw the ‘Thing’ – the Elemental and smelt it only too well. Two lamps on gallery, two more in hall below. My husband was out ahead of me at his heels I passed through corridor of wing and onto the gallery running round two sides of hall. Whilst dressing I was startled by a loud yell of terror stricken male and female voices coming – apparently from hall, and ran out to see the cause.
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