Our present conversation has awakened a deeper interest, and stimulated a more active curiosity.

I am no blind believer in chance, Milford.

I do not regard this meeting with the stranger as something only fortuitous.

There is a Providence in all the events of life, and I am now firmly assured that these encounters with the seamstress are not merely accidental, as the world regards accidents, but events in a chain of circumstances that, when complete, will result in positive good.

Of the nature of that good--as to who will be blessed or benefitted--I do not pretend to divine.