Four days after all these things happened, at about eleven o'clock at night a funeral started from Canterville Chase. The carriage with the dead body on it was pulled by eight black horses, each with a big black feather on its head.

The skeleton of the old lord Canterville was in a coffin which was covered with a beautiful purple cloth, which had the sign of the Canterville family on it in gold.

The servants from Canterville chase walked next to the carriage carrying lighted torches. Everything looked very serious and dramatic. The Lord Canterville who had sold the house to the Otis family had come from Wales especially to be there, and he sat in another carriage along with little Virginia.

Then came the United States Ambassador and his wife, then Washington and the three boys, and in the last carriage was Mrs Umney. Because Mrs Umney had been frightened by the ghost for more than fifty years, everyone felt that she should be allowed to see what happened to him in the end.

A deep grave was waiting in the churchyard, just under the old yew-tree, and the ghost was buried after everyone heard a very good speech by the Rev. Augustus Dampier.

When the priest had finished, the servants put out their torches, because this was how it was always done in the Canterville family. As the ghost's body was being put into the ground, Virginia stepped forward, and put a large cross made of white and pink flowers on it.