It was an hour later when Ida came into the room, and he looked at her thoughtfully.
"There's some grit in that young man, and I guess it's just as well," he observed.

"He's up against quite a big proposition." He saw the faint gleam in Ida's eyes.
"If he has taken hold, I think he will put it through," she said.
She turned away the next moment, and moved a glass on the table; but, when she looked around again, she saw Stirling's smile.
"Well," he said, "considering everything, it's quite likely." After this, he carefully picked out another cigar, and Ida left him, wondering what he could have meant..