Epilogue
There was to be much peace and comfort. In 1930 Mrs Janie Moore and Jack bought such a house as they had always wanted. This is The Kilns in Headington Quarry, with its own pond and woodlands. There Mrs Moore remained, with her many pets, for most of her long life. Besides a large garden, she had a gardener called Paxford in whom she never found a fault. In 1949, when she was very old and forgetful, she went to a nursing home in the nicest part of Oxford. Jack visited her every day until her death on 12 January 1951. Her husband, Courtenay Moore, never left Ireland. When he died, six months after Janie, he left everything to the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Maureen went to the Royal College of Music and became a music teacher. She married Leonard Blake and they had two children. In 1963 she became quite unexpectedly Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs with a castle in Scotland. Warnie retired from the Army in 1932 and came to live at The Kilns. He pleased everyone by writing six delightful books of French history. And Jack Lewis, as nearly everyone knows by now, was converted to Christianity. You can read about this spiritual journey in his autobiography, Surprised by Joy. The literary career, which he had already begun to combine with his academic one, blossomed unfalteringly and books of all sorts poured from his pen.