"i hinted nothing to him about my ‘final conviction,’ but it appeared to me that he had guessed it from my words. he remained silent he is a terribly silent man. i remarked to him, as i rose to depart, that, in spite of the contrast and the wide differences between us two, les extremites se touchent [‘extremes meet,’ as i explained to him in russian); so that maybe he was not so far from my final conviction as appeared.