"The impossible often happens here," he said briefly.
She expressed a sharp tremor that caught her unawares.

"What does that mean ?" she asked, striving to speak lightly.
He replied with his eyes lowered again to his task.

"It means among other things that you can't get back to Ritzen until the floods go down.

Ritter Spruit is a foaming torrent by this time." "Good heavens!" she exclaimed.

"But isn't there--isn't there a bridge anywhere ?" "Forty miles away," said Burke Ranger laconically.
"Good--heavens!" she gasped again.
He finished his bandaging and stood up.