useless regrets ♣

"the letter"

• Robbie Turner: [about the letter he gave her] ... It was a mistake.
• Cecilia Tallis: Briony read it.
• Robbie Turner: I'm so sorry, it was the wrong version.
• Cecilia Tallis: Yes.
• Robbie Turner: It was never meant to be read.
• Cecilia Tallis: No.
• [...]
• Cecilia Tallis: What was in the version I was meant to read?
• Robbie Turner: Don't know... it was more formal, and less...
• Cecilia Tallis: Anatomical?
• Robbie Turner: Yes.
• - Cecilia and Robbie, Atonement.