Therefore how could the act of transfer hit him like that?

How could a member of his family have got there?

No, he'd tried to look at the bright side, to make what he could of a bad situation.

Why, then, let them make what use they could of it.

How could any of the women here hope to understand her grief'?

How could someone of her advanced years move that quickly?

I could, of course, but that wasn't the real point.

How could the mere fact of her being influence his body so?

As for how much this should amount to, we could of course have some really good arguments about that.

"How could all of this go on without someone calling the police?"