It is fate.

Clearly it is fate that everything led up to this! Already then, directly I saw him I felt something peculiar.

" "What else did he say to you? What are those verses? Read them..." said her mother, thoughtfully, referring to some verses Prince Andrew had written in Natasha's album.

"Mamma, one need not be ashamed of his being a widower?" "Don't, Natasha! Pray to God.

'Marriages are made in heaven,'" said her mother.