These considerations came and went in Mrs.Hanway-Harley's mind, with the result that she decided to say nothing to Mr.Harley.
Dorothy, for argument of modesty and a girl's reserve, emulated her mother's example of silence.

For one thing, she felt herself in no danger.

As against the demands of Mrs.Hanway-Harley, Dorothy, thus far, had held the high ground.

Moreover, she was confident of final victory.
No one could compel her either to receive Storri's addresses or cease to think of Richard.

Dorothy added to this the knowledge that, should she draw Mr.Harley into her troubles by even so much as a word of their existence, Mrs.Hanway-Harley might be relied upon from that moment to charge him with being the author of every disappointment she underwent.
Thus it came to pass that, as Mr.Harley complacently sat down to dinner that particular New Year's evening, he had not been given a murmur of those loves and hates and commands and defiances and promises and intermediations which made busy the closing days of the recent year for Dorothy, Richard, Bess, Storri, and Mrs.Hanway-Harley.