He was wondering what might be the object of the call.
Not a visit for love he was sure.
“I hear there was almost a tragedy here,” the rich gem expert was getting to the point, Roger surmised.
“Yes, sir.”
He was not going to give information.
“Poor old star-gazer. He should have seen his fate coming. If his star-reading could warn him, why didn’t he take care?”
“I don’t know. He had said something about Neptune and Saturn in opposition and Mars opposed to Uranus, with the world between the opposite planets, pulled this way and that, if I understand him. Maybe he was trying to take care of himself, but he always says we are put into this world to have certain experiences. We cannot escape them, and what the stars’ forces did to influence our cells in brain and body at birth, he thinks, indicates what sort of experiences we will have.”
Roger, seldom over-talkative, was willing to expand this idea.
Not that he wholly grasped what it meant. Nor was he “sold” on the star philosophy. But it diverted Mr. Clark from whatever plan he had come there to try, Roger thought; and if he was right about it, Clark would come back to his subject and would thus show Roger what it was.
“Astrovox often said,” he hurried on with the topic, “we cannot avoid our Destiny, escape experiences. But we have what he called Free Will to decide how we will meet them.”