The end - the seamstress's dramatic departure from the mountain, leaving the two friends and heading toward the city. After the seamstress leaves, the narrator and Luo feel betrayed. They are greatly saddened and don't want anything that connected them to the Seamstress, as they made her who she was. They decide to
burn all of the books that they got from Four-Eyes, as they knew all of the stories and didn't need them anymore.
The seamstress's departure was sudden, and the two think back to see if there were any signes that they ignored. The largest one was the difference in how the seamstress dressed and carried herself - she sewed city-like clothes, cut her hair, and adopted a city accent. Luo was pleased with this transformation until the very end, considering the metamorphosis to be his work. He achieved in his goal - to make the seamstress civilized. However, he did
not anticipate that by giving the seamstress these ideas, he would cause her to want more, to experience the world - and leave him without regret for something better. He is devestated openly; meanwhile, the narrator has to keep
his emotions more secret, as to not betray everything he felt for the seamstress. He is perhaps hurt even more, considering the level of trust and intimacy he thought grew between him and the seamstress during Luo's absence and the whole problem with the abortion. He has to hold back, even ehen the two friends desperately chase after the seamstress - he stays on the path while Luo reunites with his girlfriend. Despite the cold reunion, the seamstress leaves without looking back, ignoring Luo and the narrator. Luo tells the narrator that her final words were that she wanted to go to the city, and that she learned one thing from Balzac - that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.
