Selden wakes up early and decides he still loves Lily and wants to marry her. He heads over to Lily's apartment, but when he gets there he finds Gerty there already and distraught. She brings Selden inside, where Lily is dead in her bed. Gerty explains that Lily overdosed on sleeping medicine and then leaves Selden alone with her. Selden looks around, and sees the envelope for Gus and for a moment thinks that if Lily is leaving notes to Selden, maybe she didn't love Selden after all like he thought she did. However, after a further examination of the room, he realizes that Lily had made out a check to Gus and her checkbook balance was left at zero. He comes to the conclusion that Lily did in fact take money from Gus before, but she felt so guilty about it that she had to make amends. Selden finds peace in that last revelation about who Lily really was, and thinks that the love between them must have saved them both from complete ruin. He kneels over her dead body and finds peace in the silence alone with her.
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