"And I am going to die besides." "You're not!" contradicted Mary unsympathetically.
He opened his eyes quite wide with indignation.

He had never heard such a thing said before.

He was at once furious and slightly pleased, if a person could be both at the same time.
"I'm not ?" he cried.

"I am! You know I am! Everybody says so." "I don't believe it!" said Mary sourly.

"You just say that to make people sorry.