It is quite late in the afternoon when two carriages bear the two couples off to different railway stations: Lucius and Lucille on their way to Stillmington, where they are to spend their brief honeymoon of a week or ten days before beginning real and earnest life in the neatly-furnished, newly papered and painted house near Manchester-square, where Mr. and Mrs. Wincher and the inevitable Mercury are to compose their modest establishment; Geoffrey and Janet to Dover, whence they are to travel southwards, to climb Swiss mountains and do Rhine and Danube ere they return to take possession of a small but perfect abode in Mayfair, where Mrs. Hossack is to give musical evenings to her heart’s content, and where Flossie’s nursery is to be a very bower of bliss, full to overflowing of Siraudin’s bonbon boxes and illuminated fairy-tale books. When Lucius and his bride take leave of Miss Glenlyne, the old lady, who has ‘borne up,’ as she calls it, wonderfully hitherto, melts into tears, and tells them that she means in future to spend the summer months in London, whether Spilling likes it or not, that she will take lodgings near Lucille’s new house, so that her darling may come and make tea for her every day. And then she adds in a whisper, that she has made a new will, and made Lucille her residuary legatee. ‘And except forty pounds a year to Spilling, and a legacy of fifty to each of the other servants, every sixpence I have is left to you, dear,’ she adds confidentially. She squeezes a fifty-pound note into Lucille’s hand just at the last, wrapped in a scrap of paper, on which is written in the old lady’s tremulous hand, ‘For hotel expenses at Stillmington.’ So they depart, happy, to begin that new life whose untrodden path to most of this world’s wayfarers seems somewhat rose-bestrewn. These begin their journey with a fair promise of finding more roses than thorns. Thus it happens that Mr. Glenlyne Spalding Glenlyne remains in undisputed possession of his lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to grow big turnips, and employ labour, and do good in his generation; while Lucius, unburdened by superfluous wealth, yet amply provided against the hazards of professional income, is left free to pursue that calling which to him is at once exalted and congenial; and every one is content. THE END. LONDON: ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N. W. Transcriber’s Notes pg 64 Changed: Where else out of Holland could he see such lantsgapes? to: Where else out of Holland could he see such landscapes? pg 124 Changed: drop of rich cream for your breakfastes to: drop of rich cream for your breakfasts pg 276 Changed: Miss Glenlyne would smetimes remark candidly to: Miss Glenlyne would sometimes remark candidly