In Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Ringlet', locks of hair are found to be striking and perplexing objects. The speaker of Tennyson's poem wonders at his lover's golden ringlet seeming 'to flame and sparkle and stream as of old' when it should turn 'silver-grey', a token of devotion that doesn't match up with the woman who gave it away. Lady Audley's golden curls, arranged so as to form a 'pale halo round her head', are used in much the same way as Tennyson's ringlet, though not given away as locks. Tennyson's 'The Ringlet' plays upon another kind of falsity seen in and through a lock of hair. The 'golden lie' attributed emphatically to the promise embodied by the lock, the ringlet is finally cast into the fire to 'burn, / Burn, burn' in what is not an issue of false character, but of the falsity of a seemingly self-evident token of character.