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Originally Posted by GA Russell
OK, I'm well aware that many of you are more sophisticated than both Jean the Shrimp Shrimpton and me, but could someone please explain to me the meaning of the last line of A Christmas Tragedy? I don't get it.
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Obviously, big spoiler
Spoiler:
Miss Marple says of the murdered girl: "Perhaps it was better for her to die while life was still happy than it would have been for her to live on, unhappy and disillusioned, in a world that would have seemed suddenly horrible. She loved that scoundrel and trusted him. She never found him out."
then 'the famous, the beautiful, the successful Jane Helier' says "Well, then, she was all right. Quite all right. I wish—"
and doesn't go on. After which the last line is Miss Marple's
“I see, my dear,” she said very gently. “I see.”
That is, Jane Helier did find out about the scoundrel she loved and now must 'live on, unhappy and disillusioned'.