- Our narrator has just one loose end to tie up. Did Randolph Henry Ash ever learn that he had a daughter?
- We're whisked back to May 1868, where we find ol' Randolph out for a walk on a hot May day.
- As he nears Seal Court, where he's hoping to visit his former lover and patch things up for good, Randolph sees a child playing in a nearby meadow.
- When Randolph stops to chat with the little girl, it becomes perfectly clear to him—and to us—that he's speaking to his daughter.
- Randolph and the girl chat for a little while, and in exchange for a crown made of flowers, the girl gives Randolph a lock of her hair.
- As they part, Randolph asks the girl to tell her "aunt" that she "met a poet, who was looking for the Belle Dame Sans Merci," and who sends her his best wishes (Postscript: 26).
- The little girl says that she'll try to remember, but, as we see, she forgets.
- The End.