 What is the most salient part of the final scene the reflects on the initial conversation?
Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction December 1955. Phil Conover pulled the zipper of his flight suit up the front of his long, thin body and came into the living room. And the faint lines around his dark, deep-set eyes were accentuated when he smiled at his wife. He came to her and touched his hands to her soft blond hair, raising her face until she was looking into his eyes. Yes, I'm sure you did," she said, finishing the ritual; but her voice broke, and she turned her head away. We know exactly how it will be. If anything could go wrong, they wouldn't be sending me; you know that. I told you that we've sent five un-manned ships up and everyone came back without a hitch." "Mary, you know I can't back out now. "I've got to get started, Mary. I won't be here because I won't be the wife of a space pilot for the rest of my life. "Yes, you did. But I don't think I ever really believed it was possible—not until this morning when you said tonight was the take-off. "It isn't a dream. There's nothing means anything more to me than you do—you know that. "Let's go, if you're still going," she finally said. They drove through the streets of the small town with its small bungalows, each alike. It was a new town, a government built town, and it had no personality yet. It existed only because of the huge ship standing poised in the take-off zone five miles away in the desert. Its future as a town rested with the ship, and the town seemed to feel the uncertainty of its future, seemed ready to stop existing as a town and to give itself back to the desert, if such was its destiny. Phil turned the car off the highway onto the rutted dirt road that led across the sand to the field where the ship waited. In the distance they could see the beams of the searchlights as they played across the take-off zone and swept along the top of the high wire fence stretching out of sight to right and left. He read Phil's pass, shined his flashlight in their faces, and then saluted. They drove between the rows of wooden buildings that lined the field, and he parked near the low barbed fence ringing the take-off zone.
 Phil knowing he wouldn't be the same if he did not go on the mission
 Mary promising she would only stay with him if he did not go  Phil knowing he wouldn't be the same if he did not go on the mission  The fact that their love was stronger than Phil's independent goals  Phil decided not to go on the mission in the end