Briony最后的独白：
By honesty or by reality…Because in fact, I was too much of a coward to go and see my sister in June, 1940. I never made that journey to Balham. So the scene in which I confess to them is imagined, invented…And, in fact, could never have happened. Because…Robbie Turner died of septicemia at Bray Dunes on June the first, 1940, the last day for the evacuation. And I was never able to put things right with my sister Cecilia, because she was killed on the 15th of October, 1940 by the bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains above the Balham tube station.So…my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for… and deserved, and which ever since I’ve…ever since I’ve always felt I’ve prevented.…But, what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on the life. I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or…evasion, but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.
