Her faith was equal to a more strenuous test.
"There is a difference in the present, but who taught you bridge-building?
It takes years to learn the use of the ax," she said.
Winston laughed.

"I think it took me four, but the man who has not a dollar to spare usually finds out how to do a good many things for himself, and I had working drawings of the bridge made in Winnipeg.
Besides, your friends have helped me with their hands as well as their good-will.

Except at the beginning, they have all been kind to me, and one could not well have expected very much from them then." Maud Barrington colored a trifle as she remembered her own attitude towards him.

"Cannot you forget it ?" she said, with a curious little ring in her voice.

"They would do anything you asked them now." "One generally finds it useful to have a good memory, and I remember most clearly that, although they had very little reason for it, most of them afterwards trusted me.