In the final portion of the novel we return to Britan were ponders the memory of Kurtz. He is still uterly fascitanted by the ability of a man to loose his civility to such an extent that there was not a single bit of light to be found with in his soul. He finally meets Kurtz's fiance and they form a simple connection by being able to truely appriciate the remarkable man that was Kurtz. However, when she ask him what Kurtz's last words were he lies, "I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistant whisper all artound us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. 'The horror! The horror!' ... The last word he pronounced was - your name." Her inability to understand the obvious may have compelled the lie, but Marlow tells us that the pure darkness of the truth prevented him from telling her. That ironically sums up the message of the novel: that the truth of society is so horrifing that the simple revalation of the truth would send the world into chaos.
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