9.There seemed, indeed, something almost preordained in the ease with which their two minds approached each other; it was as if in Conway all secret tensions were relaxed, giving him, when he came away, a sumptuous tranquillity.
10.What made Ajivika controversial at the time was that it promoted the idea of fate, the idea that everything that is going to happen has been preordained and that therefore no one has free will.