Sentence:  And it so happened that adjacent to a couch on which she had taken refuge was a small table on which she noted a vase of red rosebuds ; while projecting from beneath the couch were a pair of feet which , as Fate would <WSD>have</WSD> it , belonged to District Attorney Welch . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense