 At the end of the penultimate chapter, Smiley instructs them not to invite him again.The final chapter is unconnected with Smiley; Ned recollects Leonard Burr, who appears in the novel "The Night Manager", foreshadowing, in retrospect, the development of that story.The themes of the book are Smiley's sense of the moral ambiguity of spying, and Ned's growing self-awareness.