"Sure, sure." "Oh, and we had an accident," shouted the other, suddenly off on another tack.

"It was awful.

Trina was in the swing there--that's my cousin Trina, you know who I mean--and she fell out.

By damn! I thought she'd killed herself; struck her face on a rock and knocked out a front tooth.
It's a wonder she didn't kill herself.

It IS a wonder; it is, for a fact.