"No." His eyes flashed over her with amazing swiftness.

"I almost wish you were," he said.
"But why ?" she said.
"Because I should know then it mattered a little.

Now I know it doesn't.
I am just one of the many.

Isn't that it?
There are so many of us that one more or less doesn't count either way." He laughed ruefully.

"Well, I won't repeat the offence.