Jim thanks Marlow for listening to him, and says that telling his story is cathartic. He had jumped but he insists that he meant not to save himself. Still, he is overcome with guilt and it for this reason, he says, that he must stay to face the consequences of the inquiry.
"There was not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the right and wrong of this affair." In saying this Jim illustrates that his actions are not quite as cut-and-dried, as black-and-white as they would first seem. As though the realization has dawned upon him that he did want to save his life (when up until now he had been.....
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