"-Are you afraid? -No. Not even for the children. I always thought I would be frightened to death, but I'm not. -Where's that spirit of self-preservation the scientists talk about so much? -I don't know. You don't get too excited when you feel things are logical. This is logical. Nothing else but this could have happened from the way we've lived. -We haven't been too bad, have we? -No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble. We haven't been very much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of quite awful things.