I have a friend who studies the occult sciences, and he would call what I experienced "the affinity of fluids"; as for me, I only know that I was fated to fall in love with Marguerite, and that I foresaw it.
J'ai un de mes amis qui s'occupe de sciences occultes, et qui appellerait ce que j'éprouvais l'affinité des fluides; moi, je crois tout simplement que j'étais destiné à devenir amoureux de Marguerite, et que je le pressentais.