I don't say he'll let it pass ez far ez you're concerned or won't try to get even with ye, but he won't go round tellin' WHY.

However," she added still more grimly, "if you think you're ekul to tellin' the hull story--how ye kem to be yer and that Seth wasn't lyin' arter all when he blurted it out afore 'em--why I sha'n't hinder ye." The master said no more.

And indeed for a day or two nothing transpired to show that Seth was not equally reticent.
Nevertheless Mr.Ford was far from being satisfied with the issue of his adventure.

His relations with Cressy were known to the mother, and although she had not again alluded to them, she would probably inform her husband.

Yet he could not help noticing, with a mingling of unreasoning relief and equally unreasoning distrust, that she exhibited a scornful unconcern in the matter, apart from the singular use to which she had put it.