Grace’s hesitations about how to proceed with her account once again underscore the inner workings of stories. Grace understands that the end of a story confers meaning on everything that came before it. However, she faces a conundrum in her own act of storytelling since she both does and doesn’t know the ending of her own story. She knows that her story ends with the murders of Mr. Kinnear and Nancy and that her account must therefore lead inescapably to this conclusion. Yet Grace also feels trapped by this sense of inevitability, which she finds upsetting because she still doesn’t remember many details about the murders. In this sense, then, she doesn’t know the ending to her own story. Despite being the one in charge of the storytelling, Grace feels more like a character in the story, stuck in the middle and worried about what the future will bring.