“Mrs. Snaith, I hope you will be very happy,” Mr. Towers was saying.
And so Barney and Valancy are married, without flowers, or flower girls, or a white dress, or family, but with Barney - who was all that mattered.
Barney describes the island they are to live on, before paddling across the lake in a canoe to reach it.
Valancy has found her Blue Castle at last.