There was a world of polite fencing between Mrs.Hanway-Harley and Storri, in which each bore testimony to the esteem in which the other was held.

It was decided that Storri should continue those dinners with the Harleys; Dorothy might discover a final wisdom.
Storri told Mrs.Hanway-Harley that he feared Dorothy had given her heart to Richard.

This admission was gall and wormwood to the self-love of Storri.

He made it, however, and recalled Mrs.Hanway-Harley to Dorothy's chatter concerning the morning talks between Richard and Senator Hanway.
"That odious printer," said Storri, who called all newspaper people printers, "comes each day to get his budget of news from your illustrious brother, madam; and, believe me, your daughter makes some sly pretext for being with them--with him, the odious printer! Bah! I wish we were in Russia; I would blow out the rogue's life like a candle! Why, my Czar would laugh were so mean a being to succeed in obstructing the love of his Storri!" Mrs.Hanway-Harley was struck by the suggestion that Richard was Dorothy's lover in the dark.

She remembered Dorothy's teasing praises of Richard, and her talk of how sapiently he discoursed with "Uncle Pat." The praises occurred on that evening when, from her wisdom, she, Mrs.
Hanway-Harley, had warned her innocent child against the error of entertaining one gentleman with the merits of another.