It is the virtue of love that this is so, and none will object while Dorothy and Richard work out their tinted destiny on lines of paradise.

They had been held apart; they were now together; rely upon it they said and looked those softly tender, foolish, happy, precedental things which have been best among the best lessons of the ages.
[Illustration: He Held Her Close] Mr.Harley was pompous and patronizing the next evening when he met Richard at dinner; but Mr.Harley was no less kind.

Richard submitted himself to Mr.Harley's patronage, for in it he recognized the inalienable right of a father-in-law.

Mrs.Hanway-Harley on that dinner occasion did not pretend to the rugged, high good humor of her spouse, and cultivated a manner at once blighted and resigned.

But she was civil even as she sighed, and he would have been a carper who complained.
Dorothy was beset of many shynesses now that she was brought with her beloved into the presence of ones who were aware of her secret without possessing sympathy therewith.