At the end of a year, as the oft-falling snows betokened the coming of another Christmas, sad news reached Haddon.  Margaret was dead.  The dampness of Castle Rushen had brought on a fever, to which she soon had succumbed.  Thus the whole estates of Haddon fell, ultimately, to Dorothy’s share, which she presented to her faithful lover as her dowry.  John Manners’ descendants, the Rutlands, have had reason to be thankful for this, for it added largely to their riches, but Manners himself declared that had she brought him all the wealth that “Good Queen Bess” possessed, he had not been one whit the happier.  He could see nothing he prized so highly as his wife, and in her he found his all in all.

It is only necessary to add that discord, never again invaded the domain of Haddon.  The marriage proved a happy one; and no one, except the Stanleys, regretted it in

The end.