The man himself lay in the bed." Another short sentence, and another surprising sentence. The body of Homer Barron is there in the bed. "For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace," like, as if it’s hugging or something, "but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him." Cuckolded him means that it- it kind of was unfaithful to him. Sleep has- has won. Death has won over his love or- and his life. "What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt..."