"You'll win," she said, with the quiet confidence which strengthens when it comes from a person whose judgment one has tested and found good.

And he believed in her as absolutely as she believed in him.
"I've been tempted to resign," he went on.

"If I don't everybody'll say I'm a failure when the crash comes.

But--Madelene, there's something in me that simply won't let me quit." "There is," replied she; "it's your father." "Anyhow, _you_ are the only public opinion for me." "You'll win," repeated Madelene.

"I've been thinking over that whole business.