 What does McGill offer as a hypothesis for the odd events occurring within the story?
McGill is an assistant professor of mathematics at a university uptown and lives near us. "Well," McGill said, "nothing you've told me is impossible or supernatural. What you have told me is so impossibly unlikely, and the odds against it so astronomical, that I must take the view that you're either stringing me or you're subject to a delusion." Discounting the fact that you could have prearranged it, if my dim provisional theory is right, that would be actually impossible. "I suppose you know that there are two great apparently opposite principles governing the Universe—random and design. The sands on the beach are an example of random distribution and life is an example of design.
 He believes that Alec has somehow defied principles of randomness and design
 He believes that some form of life is causing the events  He believes that they events are merely coincidental  He believes that Alec has somehow defied principles of randomness and design  He believes that Alec is playing a deceitful trick in order to come up with an idea for his novel