It was all your little sister Briony's fault. That's why you had broken off contact with your family. All because the young girl had been jealousbwhat her older sister had with Robbie she told the police that it was aribbie who graped Lola not Marshall causing him to get arrested. He had the choice between prison and war and chose war. Now after all those years only now she came to apologise. They were sat in your kitchen Briony looking anxiously at Robbie who was starting to get angry the Yeats if war heavy on him haunted by what he had seen. He was on a leave but soon he would have to go back to France to the Frontline all because of Briony.