"Morality isn't a ball and chain, but rather taking responsibility for how you live," Lin says as if to draw the discussion to a conclusion, before uttering in literary manner: "I didn't refuse to come; it's just that I am not fated to stay!"
「道德，不是枷鎖，而是對生命負責的態度」幾乎是作了總結，林徽因很文藝腔地說，「我不是沒有來，只是無緣留下！」