A sense of an ending in volume 3 of Parade's End

The end of the third volume of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, A Man Could Stand Up - , is, intentionally, comically absurd, as on Armistice Day a fairly large group of Tietjens's war buddies show up at this half-abandoned London house to, as the British always do, carry on. The kicker in this mix is the presence of Valentine Wannop - VW and T have had this very long-running unconsummated affair, and this Armistice Day, with T clearly still in some kind of shock from his war experiences, finds him still perseverating as to whether he should take her as his "mistress" - he feels guilty because he's still married tho very estranged, she's young and innocent, and so on - yet he doesn't believe in divorce, still professes to worry about his son - about whom he almost never thinks and who astonishingly plays no role in any of the volumes of this series - so British! So the war buddies gather, that half-crazy mckechnie or whatever his name is is still carrying the sonnet that he'd pledged to translate into Latin, they sing and drink and carouse - one of the guys, Aranjuez?, is with his girlfriend now his war bride whom he was worried would reject him if he came back wounded, which he did, and she didn't. So there's a kind of celebration, and, as w/ so many war vets, the guys, who had little in common before the war, now realize that they bond only with one another and that the civilians can never fully understand them or their experiences. And all this bonding and carousing is yet another obstacle that keeps VW and T apart - for at least another night. This scene of everyone coming together during the day-long celebrations has the feel of the end of the series, not just of this novel, and I wonder if FMF had planned to write a 4th volume - I do think this scene was the end of the BBC series, so that's why it may feel that way to me - but I think FMF will have to or want to bring T. and Wannop back to T's estate, Groby, to see how things have changed since the war, and to bring some kind of conclusion to his terrible marriage, which actually began the series, and perhaps to his relationship to his difficult brother, in vol. 4.