Life locks its doors against me; I am alone." The captain smiled with cruel irony.
"I divine what your smile means.

I know what you wish to say to me....
I can see myself; you believe without doubt that such has been my former life.

No,...

_no_! You are mistaken.

I have not been _that_.
There has to be a special predisposition, a certain talent for feigning what I do not feel....