Oh he understood what she meant! "For the thing to happen thatnever does happen? For the Beast to jump out? No, I'm just whereI was about it. It isn't a matter as to which I can CHOOSE, I candecide for a change. It isn't one as to which there CAN be achange. It's in the 1ap of the gods. One's in the arms of one's1aw--there one is. As to the form the 1aw wi11 take, the way itwi11 operate, that's its own affair."