This fear includes not only the human race, but God as well. Another woman's "probing questions" bring him suddenly to this realization:
Her probing questions had somehow irritated him into revealing . . . the true nature of his relationship to God, and from that it had come upon him, with shocking force, that apart from his parents, he had never loved anyone. Or perhaps it went the other way, that he did not love God so well as he might, because he had not loved man. It seemed to Leo that his whole life stood starkly revealed and he saw himself for the first time as he truly was--unloved and loveless. . . . He covered his face with his hands and cried (8).
Of course, Leo is crying only for himself, not for God or for the human race, and, as a result, his tears and the realization that brought those tears do not bri
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