For some years her health had been so bad that they had spent much of their time in Europe in the hope of improving it .
She had at last become too weak to undertake the journeys , and her last days were spent in England .
For some years her health had been so bad that they had spent much of their time in Europe in the hope of improving it , but she had at last become too weak to undertake the journeys , and her last days were spent in England .