The study was decorated with a beautiful Christmas tree.

Lord Collin along with his family would spend a quiet Christmas Day and night together. It was exactly what Lady Mary wanted. She just wanted her own family around her at Christmas time.

 

Christmas times past where unhappy for her. She wanted to make happy memories of Christmas and Easter time with Lord Collin, Lady Lily and any other children they would have in the future.

 

They would spend Christmas together sitting by the fireplace and listening to Christmas music being played on the radio from the BBC.

 

It was the happiest time for Lady Mary and Lord Collin since neither of them remember ever being happy at Christmas time in the past.

 

This was the second Christmas they had spent together ever since they were reunited. They would share many more Christmas' together but neither would celebrate 47th Christmas together because at that time both would have passed away months before their47th Christmas.

 

Their very last Christmas they would share would be in December of 1969 at Misselthwaite Manor with all their children and grandchildren around them as a complete family.

 

Lord Collin would pass away peacefully in his sleep in September of 1970 at the age of 70 and Lady Mary would follow shortly thereof in early December of 1970 at the age of 70. They would be laid to rest side by side in the secluded rose garden inside of Lily Garden that would be surrounded by a fence that only their eldest daughter, Lady Elizabeth Lily Rose would hold as Grand Mistress of Misselthwaite Manor.

 

Lady Lily would remember the last words that her lady mother told her, " Lily dear Lily take care of the garden and take care of the secluded garden where Papa and I will be laid to rest and always remember we love you."

 

Christmas a happy time for Collin, his Mary, and their daughter Lady Lily.  Collin saw a gentle smile come across Mary's face. He smiled back and she sat quietly holding their daughter in his arms.

 

"Joyuex Noel mon amour je volonte amour vous toujours." Mary said.

"I will forever you all ways and even more after death." Collin said.

 

Mary said, " Je volonte vous toujours apres mort."

 

Mary smiled and said, " We will share so many more Christmas together with our children and grand children before our lives are over, but for now we have much to be thankful for and we have the love we hold for each other and our daughter, Lily." Mary said.

 

"Yes we are thank ful and Merry Christmas my love." Collin said.

Merry Christmas to you mon amour je amour vous avec tout ma coeur." Mary said.

The photograph of Lord Collin, Lady Mary holding Lady Lily was a happy picture of the young couple with their first child, the future heiress of Misselthwaite Manor.

 

The only happiness the young couple had was the love they had for each other and with their daughter, Lily, who was the first of three children Mary would give Collin.

 

Collin would often ask Mary, "What would I have done if I hadn't found you?"

"You would have looked the world over as I would have never married until you found me." Mary said.

 

"We are meant to be together I knew that when we were both were in Lily's Garden." Collin said.

 

"Lily's Garden is where we found out we loved each other and we would forever to be together for the rest of our lives." Mary said.

 

"Aunt Lily and Uncle Archie loved each other forever. I know so will we love each other forever." Mary said, "I will never remarry if you die first I will remain your widow until the day I am called home to join you."

 

"Without you I am nothing, you complete me." Collin said.

"Without each other we complete each other."Mary said and looked down at her sleeping daughter and said, " The poor thing she must have gotten tired. Excuse me while I carry her back upstairs to her compartments."

 

Mary walks out of the door and up the stairs and down the cooridor carrying Lady Lily to her nursery. She places her gently down in her cradle and rocks it back and forth.

 

"Bonn nuit ma fille dormir bien." Mary says to Lily.