It's like seeing a figure through mist and a bad lens. He can kind of get the gist of what this must mean to Khan, but he can't fit it into a perspective he knows.

He does know that this feels really good, though--and not just the hands on him through his boots.

"I'm guessing this was always a one-on-one thing." Because bootblacking with this level of devotion would mean the work would never get done.