Topical Guide 265
Mark Dorset
Settings: Gas Stations
THEIR MEETING almost didn’t occur, because Herb met Tessie Norris first. He met her at a gas station. He was stopped at a pump, leafing through his appointment book while he was having his tank filled and his oil and water and tires checked.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 4
World War I
Luck
In the months that followed, Herb might have become a frequent visitor at the Norrises’. … Had Herb become Tessie’s lover, his sense of honor, of loyalty, of shame would certainly have pushed him closer and closer to the Norrises, and the trio would have wrapped itself more and more tightly, snugly, closer and closer in its own misery and desperation as time passed. Herb would never have extricated himself, he would never have gone to Chacallit, he would never even have met Lorna.
Luckily, Herb was drafted.Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 4
See also: Luck (see also Coincidence; Chance; Fate) TG 9
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