Hurley's appearance midway through is a quiet and lovely metaphor in itself: Here's a person who had cut ties with Bauman reentering his life,
partly out of guilt but also out of genuine compassion.
We have expressed this in the preceding by saying that man was in Error, and had brought this upon his head «by his own
guilt; and we came to the conclusion,
partly in jest and yet also in earnest, that it was too much to expect
of man that he should find this
out for himself.