Mrs. Virginia Stafford-Smyth is the elderly lady who has a stroke on the train and is taken to Luke's office for treatment. Luke is afraid she will not recover, but with his care and Belinda's nursing, she does get better. Mrs. Stafford-Smyth is from Boston. She was traveling alone because the lady who usually traveled with her had surgery from which she had not yet recovered. While Mrs. Stafford-Smyth is staying in Belinda's town, Windsor, her butler, is the only person who comes to see her.
