And really it WAS attractive: a clean, lovely, humanless world.

It was the REALLY desirable.

Her heart hesitated, and exulted.

But still, she was dissatisfied with HIM.
'But,' she objected, 'you'd be dead yourself, so what good would it do you ?' 'I would die like a shot, to know that the earth would really be cleaned of all the people.

It is the most beautiful and freeing thought.