All he receives in turn is a glare. No, he will not be letting go of that particular delusion, and you can't make him. That tiny little admission means that everything he's built up around him over the years is a lie, and he's not ready to watch all of that come tumbling down just yet.

Who could possibly come back from that?

"I'm not going. There's no point in it," he affirms, after a steady length of silence during which neither of them seem inclined to do much beyond glower at one another.