"But now, I do not laugh!" Kurz protested with wearied eagerness. "Now I come to you. I ask you if you know those things—now?"
"What things, Otto?"
"The things of life. The things of death."
"I know what I always knew," he said slowly. "I know that life is meant to live fully and understandingly and that death is meant to live on; fully and understandingly."
"And—you—do—understand—now?"
"I understand that always."
"You would not be afraid?"
"Of what?"
"Of—death?"
"No."