Come, i said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is precious. you are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once i was. you are a man to be missed. for me it is no matter. we will go back; you will be ill, and i cannot be responsible. besides, there is luchesi--" the narrator wishes to turn back before fortunato gets sick. fortunato is a rich and popular man in town. the narrator is not an important man. fortunato is ignorant of the narrator's intent to harm him.