It was a serendipitous meeting.

I guess we won't make the Lodge meeting tonight, ... Hope they understand.

It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us meeting a second time! Of course I have wished for it, very much—but they were vain wishes; the kind one makes in twilight states, you know, idly. I remember just what you said, as we rounded the heads of the harbor—in the dawn light. "I should like to see him in a storm," you said. I have thought of it many times, since; it was the most delightfully original of speeches.'

Anna blushed at this: not only had she never heard herself described as an original before, she had certainly never supposed that her utterances qualified as 'speeches.

But there was something really serendipitous that was happening, with some kind of energy that things would ultimately just work out, sometimes better than when you plan.

I'd hoped to be at the next (supervisors) meeting before then to thank everyone, but that probably won't happen now.

He had half their points in every quarter (in the last meeting). The emphasis was not to stop him, but to make him work hard for his baskets and tire him.