"i think you are unfair towards me," he said. "there is nothing wrong in the thoughts i ascribe to hippolyte; they are only natural. but of course i don’t know for certain what he thought. perhaps he thought nothing, but simply longed to see human faces once more, and to hear human praise and feel human affection. who knows? only it all came out wrong, somehow. some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately."