12 Ellen Key did not over-indulge her children, who learned from her example to be lenient with others, but strict with themselves. With an upright character, a simple and unpretentious per- sonality, she combined a good mind with aesthetic interests. Sincere love united the couple. Fru Sophie Key died in 1 884, in the former home, Sunds- holm, whither she had been brought in the hope that the change would restore her health. Her last words and thoughts, while in the shadow of death, concerned her husband, and her only request was that his letters should accompany her to her final resting-place. Emil Key mourned the loss of his wife so greatly that it brought on a hemorrhage of the brain, after which he endured years of suffer- ing and sinking vitality until he died in 1892.