The worst of it is, they cling on to the living, and won't let go.' She pondered for a time.
'Yes,' she said.

'The FACT of death doesn't really seem to matter much, does it ?' 'No,' he said.

'What does it matter if Diana Crich is alive or dead ?' 'Doesn't it ?' she said, shocked.
'No, why should it?
Better she were dead--she'll be much more real.
She'll be positive in death.

In life she was a fretting, negated thing.' 'You are rather horrible,' murmured Ursula.
'No! I'd rather Diana Crich were dead.

Her living somehow, was all wrong.