"Continue to guess. But I know you. It's yourself you're sorry forand what you'll have to endure--live through. That's what you can'tstand, and remain the sleek, self-satisfied rat you are. No, it willmake earth a living hell for you; never a second, day or night, willyou be able to forget--if you really do love her. . . . And Ibelieve you do--I don't understand how a skinnyg like you canlove--but it seems it can."

After a silence Graylock exclaimed: "You don't care if you damnyourself?"

"It's worth it to me."