Those are my thoughts exactly about Lady Hope...what better witness could there be for any evangelizer, than to claim that 'she', got that bad old Charles Darwin to recant, and 'she' got him back to religion...
Her crowds would increase, and the collection plate would be full...she may have believed in her cause, and willing to embellish the truth for it...we will never know the exact circumstances of why she said what she said, but the fact that she apparently did make these claims, knowing them to be false, makes me think very little of her..
And we all know that no evangelist would use the name of God to increase the size of their bank accounts or enhance their reputation... </sarcasm>