 After clinging to a log, Matilda is picked up by the fisherman who had arranged to escape with Watts, and eventually reaches Australia.There she is reunited with her father and begins to pick up the pieces of her disrupted life.She comes to terms with the reality of Watts, who altered both the facts of his life and abridged the contents in "Great Expectations" in an effort to provide escape from the world, both for himself and for the children.