I'll bring you flowers." She longed to deceive him, to soothe him with lying promises, to say to him "Stay where you are; do not be restless any longer; stay where you are, and I swear to you that I will never again do anything to offend you; I promise to submit to your will." But she dared not lie over a grave, and she was sure that it would be useless, that the dead know everything.
A little wearied, she continued awhile, more indolently, her prayers and supplications, and she realized that she no longer felt the horror with which the tombs had formerly inspired her; that she had no fear of the dead man.

She sought the reason for this, and discovered that he did not frighten her because he was not there.
And she mused: "He is not there; he is never there; he is everywhere except where they laid him.

He is in the streets, in the houses, in the rooms." And she rose to her feet in despair, feeling sure that henceforth she would meet him everywhere except in the cemetery..