Contrive

He doesn’t know what causes it, but just wait. He’ll contrive an explanation.

[…]I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.

Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.

With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.