"I'm sure he will leave her at the altar again", Lisa said with a sigh.

The whisper could be heard in the whole church, even by the bride and groom up in front. And by the vicar, who had just started the ceremony.

The whole congregation was looking nervously at Sir Anthony as he openened his mouth...

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The church was absolutely silent. Reverend Hardy was looking sternly at Sir Anthony, worrying what would happen next. Would the Baronet repeat what he had done in Downton Church all those years ago?

That would be a great problem for the vicar, who of course knew on which side his bread was buttered. Locksley was Sir Anthony's estaty, he was the one to decide what vicar should serve in his church.

But if Sir Anthony had planned all this just to be able to humiliate Lady Edith again - then the vicar knew that he would have to leave.

Jesus wants you to forgive seventy times seven, but Reverend Hardy wasn't Jesus. If Sir Anthony abandoned Lady Edith at the altar again the reverend felt he would have to give up this comfortable living and move somewhere else, probably with much more work and a bigger congreation to serve.

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Sir Anthony turned around and looked at Lisa and Jane before he spoke.

"No, I can assure you I will not abandon Lady Edith again, Miss Lisa. This time it is till death do us part. But I want to use this opportunity to beg everyone who was present last time in Downton Church of forgiveness. I know what I did was unforgiveable, but I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me anyhow. I have regretted doing it ever since."

Then he turned to Edith.

"And I know, my darling, that you have forgiven me, although you have the least reason to do so. That is the greatest wonder of my life. Thank you so very much."

Then he turned to Reverend Hardy again and asked him to continue the ceremony. The Vicar was quick to oblige.

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The rest of the wedding went smoothly, and then, at last, Anthony and Edith were pronounced man and wife.

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The very same day that little Alice Strallan moved into the new nursery at Locksley to live with her Mummy and her new Daddy after their honey moon, Mrs Drewe went into labour. It had been expected to happen for more than a week by then, but somehow she had managed to postpone it until her responsibility for the little Crawley child was over.

All went well and before the day was over the Drewes and their older children had a new little girl to love. After some hesitation, and a word or two with Lady Edith Strallan - who was delighted by the idea - they decided to name their new little girl Alice.

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When Lisa and Jane had finished the village school some years later, Anthony offered to pay for further education for them and also for the rest of the Drewe and Argyll children.

At first the Drewes wouldn't hear of Sir Anthony paying for this, they didn't live on his estate, but Sir Anthony persuaded them.

So Lisa didn't have to start as a kitchen maid at Downton, which had been the plan. There wasn't much future in that.

The Drewes thanked Sir Anthony profusely, but Anthony wouldn't hear of it. He said he was the one to have reason to be thankful for all that they had done for his wife and little Alice.

"Actually, you have treated Edith far better than I ever have", he said with a sigh. "You were a friend to my wife and my daughter when they most needed it, you both were. All of you were."

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So, what else do i have to tell you?

Oh yes, Edith's child. Little Jonathan Robert was born about a month early, counting from the day of his parents' wedding.

"He was born early", Cora said. "But he is a big boy, so I think he will be alright."

Of course she knew that the boy was concieved long before the wedding, and there was also Alice to prove that the couple hadn't exactly managed to keep chaste until they married. But people cared less about these things after the war, and with a stiff upper lip and a straight back, you can get away with a lot of things, as Cora well knew.

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Edith and Anthony didn't live happily ever after, but at least they both lived happily enough most of the time for quite a long time.

They had one more child together, another boy, but Alice remained their only daughter. She grew up to be the image of her mother, so no one really doubted that Anthony was her father.

As the years went by, Edith wondered from time to time if she ought to tell Alice about Michael Gregson.

But why bother.

It would only lead to chaos, she supposed.

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And that is the end of the story...

No, wait! I have to tell you about the pigs of course!

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What happened to the pigs? Sir Brumble, White Beauty, Golden Blossom and all their many piglets? And all the other boars, sows and piglets at Locksley.

Did they live happily ever after? Or did they all end up as pork, ham and bacon, as pigs so often do?

I'm certain that you wonder.

Well, I honestly don't know. What I do know is that each of the sows had between twenty and thirty piglets each year. Sir Brumble and the other boars at Locksly had more than twenty times that number. Some of those piglets were brought up at Locksley, but most of them were sold as breeding animals to other estates and countries.

So if you ever see any Large White pigs, in England or abroad, in Europe or anywhere else in the world, it is very likely that they are the offspring of Sir Brumble and one of his many sows.

And I guess it is only through our offspring any of us can live happily ever after, after all.

On that happy note I hereby end this story.

I will miss Sir Brumble...

AN: Thank you for reading! Thank you for the lovely comments to last chapter!

Please leave a comment, this is the very last chance to review it!

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The title of this chapter is inspired by the short story A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene. It is a very sweet little love story, from the book May we Borrow Your Husband?

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I am very happy to have finished the story now, I actually started it in December 2013. But I had promised to finish it and now it is done and I have done what I can for the Andith fans.

This is probably the strangest story I have ever written, and even the strangest one in the whole Andith fandom, at least as far as I know, I have stopped reading the new ones. I have tried to keep everyone in character, though, even if Edith is more the Edith of series 3 and 4 than that of series 6.

And I have learnt a lot about pigs.