It is the want of trust that makes life hard. You cannot be happy without perfect courage; and you cannot have courage without perfect strength. He has both; and they are yours if you trust him.
Vera.
Is it possible to trust any one? Suppose he did what you knew was wrong?
Elizabeth.
How should I know it was wrong? When I have found a man who stands out above other men, who shrinks from nothing, who is true to himself——
Vera.
[Shuddering.] But to murder a little thing like that!
Elizabeth.
It was just the helplessness of the little thing that would have frightened another man. It must be very hard to murder a child. But neither strength nor helplessness can frighten him!