Ne comprenant rien à ce qui arrivait, ‘ Without

the least idea of,’ etc. See 2, 24, note.

29, — Il fallait que ça arrivât. Falloir =vaas,i, be necessary, hâve to. xhè exclamatory force of the sentence may be rendered by prefixing ‘ and ’• to the Eng. sentence ; ça —cela ; arrivât is subjunctive after fallait (II., 229, h.). * And that had to happen before I died,”

Ça is a colloquial contraction of cela. Note the use of the cedilla in ça though not in cela, due to the c being naturally soft (=s) before e, but naturally hard (=k) before a. Hence to represent the soft Sound before a, the Word is written ça.