"...but the dead are everywhere. They cannot be so simply evaded. One feels them pressing their sad blind fingers in deprivation upon the panels of our secret lives, asking to be remembered and re-enacted once more in the life of the flesh – encamping among our heartbeats, invading our embraces. We carry in ourselves the biological trophies they bequeathed us by their failure to use up life – alignment of an eye, responsive curve of a nose; or in still some fugitive forms like someone's dead laugh, or a dimple which excites a long-buried smile."
《四重奏》的终章，Darley再次成为讲述者，并在七年后重回亚历山大。从他口中我们得知了前三部中主要人物的现状（或结局）：浪子找到真爱（然而很快在一场意外中失去了她）；死于私刑的异装癖老警察被奉为圣人，人们已忘了他的凡人身份；Justine仿佛一度失去了她的光环，但并非如此；Clea和Darley成了情侣（what do girls see in him anyway?），然后在离奇的事故中失去了一只手，义肢给她带来了新的创作冲动。
陆陆续续地，他们都朝着欧洲出发。亚历山大成了过去时。
