Seven years after losing Lucy and helping destroy Dracula, Godalming is happily married and can remember the old ordeal without despair.
Arthur Holmwood loses father and fiancée, frees Lucy Westenra by driving the merciful stake, and brings his title, loyalty, blood, and resources into the campaign against Dracula. He survives the river pursuit and final battle, where Quincey dies.
Seven years later Godalming is happily married. He remains part of the little band commemorated in Quincey Harker's names and can look back on Lucy, Mina, and the hunters' sacrifices without the despair that once consumed him.
A tall, handsome, curly-haired English nobleman, older than during the crisis and no longer described as grief-worn; no later physical details are supplied.
Arthur is the bereaved lover who turns inheritance and grief into service, then eventually returns to marriage and ordinary happiness.