At any rate, he guesses more or less what I am thinking about, and can see that there is something in the ideas which others consider foolish, as perhaps they are.
"It is very odd that I, who had made sure that I was gone, should be still alive in this pleasant house, and saved from death by this pleasant companion, to find my father, whom I feared was dead, also living.

And all this after I had sung the 'Song of the Overlord!' So much for its ill-luck.

But, all the same, my father was rather upset when he heard that I had been found singing it.

He is very superstitious, my dear old father; that is one of the few Norse characteristics which he has left in him.

I told him that there was no use in being disturbed, since, in the end, things must go as they are fated.
"Mr.Monk is engaged to a Miss Porson.