diff --git a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go
index 4ae20b2..c86476b 100644
--- a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go
+++ b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ func Decode(raw []byte) (Statement, error) {
 	return s, nil
 }
 
-// Caller calls a seat's verb on one node: process.Conn.CallOn.
+// Caller calls a seat's verb on one node: process.Conn.CallKeptOn, a kept call asked again through a transport fault
+// within the bus's retry bound (novox/hq ADR 0668 §1; the verb is a read, safe to call again).
 type Caller func(node, key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)
 
 // Ask asks node's engine the verb once and says what it answered. An engine that answered the call with an error is
@@ -269,6 +270,22 @@ func (k *Keeper) AskNode(node, why string) {
 	go k.ask(node, why)
 }
 
+// AskAll asks every node of nodes once, each as AskNode does.
+func (k *Keeper) AskAll(nodes []string, why string) {
+	for _, n := range nodes {
+		k.AskNode(n, why)
+	}
+}
+
+// AtBind is what a part registers with its event hub's OnBound (process.EventHub.OnBound): at each bind of its consumer
+// every node nodes names is asked once, so a manifest-reads-changed said before the consumer existed, and a statement
+// taken while an engine restarted, end at the bind and not at the next event (novox/hq ADR 0668 §4; issue 1966 note 155).
+func (k *Keeper) AtBind(nodes func() []string) func(created time.Time) {
+	return func(created time.Time) {
+		k.AskAll(nodes(), "the part's consumer was bound, made "+created.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
+	}
+}
+
 func (k *Keeper) ask(node, why string) {
 	defer func() {
 		k.mu.Lock()
diff --git a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go
index b620d1c..135c660 100644
--- a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go
+++ b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 package enginereads
 
 import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // The answer and the event are judged as the contract lays them out and its reader checks: the layout's version, a node
@@ -34,6 +37,24 @@ func TestTheAnswerAndTheEventAreJudged(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("event %s: %v, want %q", name, err, c.bad)
 		}
 	}
+	// Issue 1966 note 155, ADR 0668 §4: a part whose first call of a node timed out, and whose consumer was bound after
+	// the node's event was said, calls every node once at the bind, and the node is then held as it answered.
+	calls := map[string]int{}
+	k := &Keeper{Sync: true, Call: func(node, _ string, _ any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		calls[node]++
+		if node == "ace" && calls[node] == 1 {
+			return nil, context.DeadlineExceeded
+		}
+		return json.RawMessage(`{"v":1,"node":"` + node + `","manifest-reads":["a.b"],"stated-at":"` + at + `"}`), nil
+	}}
+	k.AskNode("ace", "the first view")
+	if k.Statements()["ace"].Answered {
+		t.Errorf("a call that timed out reads as answered")
+	}
+	k.AtBind(func() []string { return []string{"ace", "g14"} })(time.Unix(0, 0))
+	if p := k.Present([]string{"ace", "g14"}); len(p["ace"]) != 1 || len(p["g14"]) != 1 || calls["ace"] != 2 || calls["g14"] != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("after the bind: present %v, calls %v", p, calls)
+	}
 	if Verb != "manifest-reads" || Event != "manifest-reads-changed" || Consumes != "node-engine.manifest-reads-changed" || Invoke != "seat:node-engine.manifest-reads" {
 		t.Errorf("the names are %s %s %s %s", Verb, Event, Consumes, Invoke)
 	}