“With marvelous courage.”
“In what other way can thoroughbred people face an enemy? Suppose I had lost instead of won, suppose Jimmy had been taken from me, do you think it would have broken me?”
“I can’t imagine anything breaking you,” said Dion. “But I don’t believe you ever pray.”
“What has that to do with it?”
“I believe the people who pray are the potential cowards.”
“Do you pray?”
“Not now. That’s why I was smiling when I looked at the minarets. But I don’t make a virtue of it. I have nothing to pray for.”
“Well then, if you have put away prayer, that means you are going to rely on yourself.”
“What for?”
“For all the sustaining you will need in the future. The people commonly called good think of God as something outside themselves to which they can apply in moments of fear, necessity and sorrow. If you have really got beyond that conception you must rely on yourself, find in yourself all you need.”