“After ten years!  Ha!  They are no subjects for this real world of ours; are they not rather swains in my poor Philip Sidney’s Arcadia?  Ho, no; ’twere pity to meddle with them.  Leave them to their Dutch household and their carracks.  Let them keep their own secret; I’ll meddle in the matter no more.”

And so, though after Elizabeth’s death and James’s accession, Sir Humfrey and Lady Talbot gladdened the eyes of the loving and venerable pair at Bridgefield, the Princess Bride of Scotland still remained in happy obscurity, “Unknown to History.”

THE END.