Part Four, Beginnings: Snow, Happy Birthday, The Thirteenth Tale, and Postscriptum, Summary

Miss Winter dies after finishing her story. A terrible snowstorm has hit Yorkshire and Margaret is snowed in with the two servants and the two dead bodies. They pass the time as best as they can until Margaret is able to make her way outside for a quiet walk and a few tears of grief. The doctor finds her here and consoles her. When the snow finally melts, Margaret attends three funerals, that of Miss Winter, Emmeline, and the cremation of the bones. Margaret takes the cremated ashes to Aurelius and tells him the story of his birth and his mother's death. Then Margaret tells Aurelius about his father and the sister whom he has already known. Aurelius is thrilled to finally know...