Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Apparition to Father Mabeuf

Marius no longer went to see anyone, but he sometimes encountered Father Mabeuf by chance.

While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his side.