"you have confused your motives and ideas, as i need scarcely say too often happens to myself. i can assure you, keller, i reproach myself bitterly for it sometimes. when you were talking just now i seemed to be listening to something about myself. at times i have imagined that all men were the same," he continued earnestly, for he appeared to be much interested in the conversation, "and that consoled me in a certain degree, for a double motive is a thing most difficult to fight against.