Until he understood the trend of affairs, a hostile collision with Storri would be the likeliest method by which disaster might be invoked.

He must avoid Storri.

This prudence on Richard's part went tremendously against the grain, for he was full of stalwart, primitive impulses that moved him to find Storri by every shortest cut and beat him to rags.

He must keep away from Storri.

Also, he would defer those revelations to Mrs.
Hanway-Harley which were to have filled her soul with that radiance and made her as ready for Dorothy's marriage with Richard as was Richard himself.