Sometimes a situation which to the kind of a mind which requires certainty seems hopeless can be adjusted in the most common-place manner:
Congressman Charles R. Davis of Minnesota relates that one afternoon a train on a Western railroad stopped at a small station, when one of the passengers, in looking over the place, found his gaze fixed upon an interesting sign. Hurrying to the side of the conductor, he eagerly inquired: "Do you think that I will have time to get a soda before the train starts?"
Oh, yes, answered the conductor.
But suppose, suggested the thirsty passenger, "that the train should go on without me?"
We can easily fix that, promptly replied the conductor. "I will go along and have one with you."