The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov

The guilty fleeth when no man pursueth,”

“What were you sorry about?” He felt his cheeks burning. “That you should have such trouble about wanting me. It’s such a simple thing. You just ask a girl. It’s so easy to be friendly. Why suffer?”

With that disappearance, he knew, even as Noÿs moved slowly into his arms, came the end, the final end of Eternity. —And the beginning of Infinity.