It will give us all a better chance.

Good-bye, Miss Bawn, for we shall not meet again." It made a nine days' wonder when the people heard that Richard Dawson had married Nora Brady; but that was a year later, and Damerstown was shut up and to be let.
Lord and Lady St.Leger still rule at the Abbey, and seem likely to rule for many years, to the joy of their children.
Theobald's wife is keen about her husband's profession, and will not let him leave the army yet, so that we see them only at intervals.
But the old couple are not lonely.

My godmother and Uncle Luke have their full measure of happiness.

They have, what my dear godmother confessed to me she had not dared to hope for--a child, a boy--brave and beautiful, worthy to succeed his father in time as the Lord St.Leger.
There is no bonnier boy in all the countryside except my own, and he is the image of his father, so it is not likely that any child could be just like him.

But the young heir fills Aghadoe Abbey with joy and peace.