"It is a prediction about the descendants of the Wyverns.

My grandam knew it by heart--she had a wondrous memory--but my mother would never let me write down such things.

She loved them not, and said they had better be forgotten.
But though I cannot recall the words, the meaning stays still with me.

It was that though death might thin the ranks of the Wyverns, and their name even die out amongst men, yet in the future they should bring good hap to those who wed with them, and that some great treasure trove should come to the descendants in another generation.

Now, Cuthbert, though the name of Wyvern has died out--for the sons went to the Spanish main, and were killed fighting for the honour of England and the Queen in the days of Elizabeth; and the daughters are married, and have lost their title to the old name--yet thou and I have their blood in our veins.