loss-and-regret

Calvin Knight meets an elderly woman named Eileen Lambert at the Imperial War Museum, initially unsure if she is the same Eileen connected to his grandmother Polly Sebastian. After a tense interaction and some confusion about identities, Eileen reveals she is actually Binnie Hodbin, an evacuee raised by the real Eileen after the war, who has since died. This revelation confirms Calvin's failure to rescue them during the war and sets a somber tone about lost opportunities and the passage of time.