Mr Otis thought that the young duke was a very nice person, but he did not like the idea of his daughter becoming an aristocrat.

He said that he was worried that Virginia would forget the true and serious ideas of the Republic in which she was born, because the life of an English aristocrat was about nothing but pleasure.

But if Mr Otis was unhappy, his wife and Virginia were not.

Anyway, I believe that when he took his daughter to be married at the church of St George's, in Hanover Square in London, Mr Otis was the proudest man in the whole of England.

After the honeymoon was over, the Duke and his new Duchess went down to Canterville Chase. On the day after their arrival they went for a walk in the afternoon. They went to the lonely churchyard by the wood with the pine trees.

No-one had been sure about what should be written on the stone above where the ghost's body was buried. In the end they had decided just to put the letters of his name - S.C. for Simon Canterville, and the lines from the library window which had said what was going to happen.