In the _Iliad_ a man declines to kill his enemy on the ground that their people had dined together, which is going rather far, but it is not recorded that any ancient Greek, even Socrates himself, ever felt pity or did an act of spontaneous kindness! I don't believe any one has said that, but it's perfectly true.' 'Then why did you take all that trouble for Mr.Feist ?' 'I don't know.

People who always know why they do things are great bores.

It was probably a caprice that took me to see him, and then it did not occur to me to let him cut his throat, so I took away his razor; and, finally, I telephoned for my doctor, because my misspent life has brought me into contact with Western civilisation.

But when we began to pack Mr.Feist's papers I became interested in him.' 'Do you mean to say that you read his letters ?' Margaret inquired.
'Why not?
If I had let him kill himself, somebody would have read them, as he had not taken the trouble to destroy them!' 'That's a singular point of view.' 'So was Mr.Feist's, as it turned out.

I found enough to convince me that he is the writer of all those articles about Van Torp, including the ones in which you are mentioned.