Chance and Fate

Without the hand of fate, this story might never have happened. Pompey Jones is well aware of this fact in that he tells Myrtle the two of them are a kind, and it was fate that threw them together in Master Georgie's path.

It was by chance that Myrtle is found, and by chance that she ends up in the Hardy home. If it were not for the smallpox epidemic, she would have ended up in the orphanage. Master George, Myrtle, and Pompey Jones are together in the bedroom of the brothel, looking at the body of Mr. Hardy. It is fate that has brought them there together, Jones believes, and a moment in time, which will forever changes their lives.

From that point on, Jones becomes a part of George's life, working for him as an assistant and having an occasional sexual relationship with him...