An immortality with one end to it was to her an unthinkable proposition which could not possibly be true.

For her, as for her father, Eternal Life and Eternal Justice were one.

Where a man ended one life, from that point he began the next: for good or for evil, for ignorance or for knowledge.

A life lived and ended in righteousness (not, of course, in the narrow theological sense of the term) began again in righteousness, and in evil meant inexorably a re-beginning in evil.

That was Fate, because it was also immutable Justice.