Old Africa - 18-5-15 - Christine Nicholls - Tich Miles never married and often played host in Africa to his extraordinary unmarried sister Olive Muriel Tremayne Miles, born in 1886 and four years his senior. Similarly tiny and strong, and known as ‘Dolly’, she had untidy, wiry hair, slightly protruding teeth, and dark olive skin. She had followed Tich to Kenya in 1910, but on the outbreak of war she set off for Salonika where she attached herself to the French army and worked in military hospitals. She then moved to the Caucasus to work in an orphanage for Armenian children. After the war she often went to East Africa to stay with Tich, at Mega and elsewhere. She was also a friend of Nellie Grant, Elspeth Huxley’s mother, who appreciated her wit and vivacity, though often tired of her incessant chatter. Dressed in bold, flowered chintzes, Dolly became an expert gardener and horse-rider and then took to the air, gaining a pilot’s licence. Once she disappeared for two years to China. She ended her years in England, falling down dead in 1971, at the age of 81, when she went to open the door to an electrician.