[He didn't linger, and averted his gaze to afford the stranger a modicum of privacy for his innermost turmoils.]

Yeah, it was something like that. The face of someone I didn't like voicing my own personal doubts.

[Lingering a few steps behind, just in case the door were to reveal something else that was intensly private, he continued:]

I think this cave is forcing us to face the parts of ourselves that we don't like.