no good deed-- pt 4

I feel a lot like the second man right now. And yet I don't know if I did what I did because I thought it was the right thing or because I thought it would feel like the right thing. How do you know how much help is as much help as you can give? If you don't give as much as you can, have you done something wrong? How do people feel after they do the "right thing"? Does it matter? And what the heck am I gonna say to this guy tomorrow?