I confess myself I cannot see it: and Lilly has never been able to convince me." "I don't believe in a kind-hearted Providence," said Aaron, "and I don't believe Lilly does.

But I believe in chance.

I believe, if I go my own way, without tying my nose to a job, chance will always throw something in my way: enough to get along with." "But on what do you base such a very unwarrantable belief ?" "I just feel like that." "And if you are ever quite without success--and nothing to fall back on ?" "I can work at something." "In case of illness, for example ?" "I can go to a hospital--or die." "Dear me! However, you are more logical than Lilly.

He seems to believe that he has the Invisible--call it Providence if you will--on his side, and that this Invisible will never leave him in the lurch, or let him down, so long as he sticks to his own side of the bargain, and NEVER works for his own ends.

I don't quite see how he works.