Fate and Chance

Events unfold with a sense of inevitability and 'punctualness,' as if driven by fate, yet chance encounters and accidents—like the meeting in the café—set the entire adventure in motion.

The narrator's recruitment is presented as a matter of chance and the contact of two minds, highlighting the role of fate in his adventure.

The narrator's chance meeting with Mills and Captain Blunt in the café, and the decision to go to Blunt's rooms, feels like a significant, perhaps fated, turn in his life, marking the end of a previous existence.

The narrator reflects on the idea of fatality embodied in people like Blunt and Therese, and the role of chance in Rita's life.

The narrator's encounter with Doña Rita and the decision to join the enterprise feel like a turning point, with elements of chance and destiny.