"That's it," she said, "you weren't there, and you won't be."
"You're wrong," said he, "I've always been there when you wanted me."
He turned to go and came back again.
"If I don't like to see you celebrated, Jinny, it's because I want to see you immortal."
"You don't want to be alone in your immortality?"
"No. I don't want to be alone—in my immortality."
With that he left her. And he had not said a word about his wife.
Neither for that matter had Jane. She wondered why she had not.
"At any rate," she thought, "I haven't hurt his immortality."