These measures, while effective in so far that they carried Mr.Harley beyond the immediate range of Mrs.Hanway-Harley's guns, left that wife and mother with a depleted opinion of Mr.Harley.She could not respect one who failed to give her battle, being offered proper provocation; and in that Mrs.Hanway-Harley was one with all the world.

To fight is now and then an obligation.
Thinking thus lightly of Mr.Harley, and remembering, too, that Dorothy could coil him round her finger, quell him with a tear, Mrs.
Hanway-Harley did not take him into her confidence as to those love proffers of Storri, and Dorothy's rebellion.

What would have been the good?
Mr.Harley's advice was nothing, while his countenance, as far as it went, would be given to Dorothy the disobedient.

Also, he would go to Senator Hanway with the tangle.

Such a course might bring her brother actively upon the field; and Mrs.Hanway-Harley had gleaned enough from her talk with Senator Hanway to know that, should he assume a part, it would not be in support of her interest.