He gets a sign from God that all will be well, and still goes for the deal with the Devil. (Also, when Peter says, "So is it part of your divine plan that my aunt dies" He should have said, "Well, yes, Peter. Pretty much. EVERYONE dies. Didn't you know?") My grandmother died a few years after I got married, right after we had my first grandchild. My grandmother was the spittin' image of Steve Ditko's Aunt May, even down to the gnarly, athritic hands. I loved my grandmother, but if the Devil had appeared to me at that point, "Oh, I'll bring her back, but your marriage to the woman you love would have never happened"---I would have laughed in his face. You choose the woman you love. And you choose her above anyone else, family, friends, whatever. Everyone dies. And both my grandmother and Aunt May had a long life already. Oh, well. It's done. But if God or the publishers or whomever still allowed inter-company crossovers, at this point, He should turn to the Spectre and say, "I have a little JOB for you..."