He would threaten to go no further with Credit Magellan unless Storri put those French shares in his hands; and he would give him twenty-fold their value if he did.

Mr.Harley harbored the thought that Storri would yield; and yield all the more readily since his passion for Dorothy and his appetite for revenge against Mr.Harley would have had time to cool.

Thus reasoning, and thus hoping, and, one had almost said, thus fearing, Mr.Harley gave himself to the task in two parts of keeping Storri in paths of peace, and praying for a break in the market so that the attack on Northern Consolidated might begin.
You are not to suppose those changes in Mr.Harley and Dorothy went uncounted by Mrs.Hanway-Harley; that would be claiming too much against the lady's vigilance.

In her double role of wife and mother, it was her duty to observe the haggard face of Mr.Harley and the woe that settled about Dorothy's young eyes; and Mrs.Hanway-Harley, as wife and mother, observed them.

And this is how that perspicacious matron read those signs.