'but whatever was to happen on that account , i came to san francisco to make available our knowledge to you , to show you , if you wished , how to use your power , and then perhaps to broach the subject that you might find our way of life fulfilling or enjoyable , enough to consider it , at least for a while 'you see , there was something about your life which intrigued me , that is , what i could learn of it , from the public records , and from well , some simple investigation that we conducted on our own .