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Hanway-Harley had owned any gift to read faces, she might have hesitated at this pinch. "What would you have?" said Dorothy, and her tones were as brittle and as devoid of sentimental softness as Mrs. Hanway-Harley's. "Marriage." "Marriage with Storri?" "Dorothy," said Mrs.
Hanway-Harley, lifting her jeweled hand finely, as though the thing were settled and the conference at an end. "And I tell you," said Dorothy, catching her breath and speaking with bitter slowness, "that I shall not marry him!" "This to me! your mother! in my own house!" "You shall not drive me!" cried Dorothy passionately, her eyes roving savagely, like the eyes of a badgered animal.
"Barbara," said Senator Hanway, on the morning of that day when Richard meddled so crushingly with Storri's hand, "Barbara, there is a matter in which you might please me very much." Mrs. Hanway-Harley looked across the table at her brother, for the four were at breakfast. "I promise in advance," said she. "There is a gentleman," went on Senator Hanway, "I met him for a moment a Mr. Gwynn.
And that morning armful of roses? No, Storri was not the moving cause of their fragrant appearance upon the Harley premises. Storri regretted that he had not once bethought him of this delicate attention. Mrs. Hanway-Harley wrung her hands. It was Dorothy who first planted in her the belief that the flowers were from Storri. Oh, the artful jade!
That young man is necessary to my plans. He is to come to this study, freely and without interference. Nor are you, on any occasion, or for any cause, to affront him or treat him otherwise than with respect." "But, brother," urged Mrs. Hanway-Harley, "he has trapped Dorothy into a promise of marriage." "Why do you object to him?" "He has no fortune; the man's a beggar!"
Dorothy was convinced of her father's danger without knowing its cause or what form it might take; and she filled up with a resolution to do whatever she could, saving only the acceptance of Storri and his love, to buckler him against it. Nor was this difference which Dorothy made between Mrs. Hanway-Harley and Mr.
Hanway-Harley was in the best possible temper to carry forward her side of the conference in manner most creditable to herself and most helpful for her purposes. More than ever, since she had heard him, she knew the perilous sway this man must own over her daughter.
Under the circumstances, Mrs. Hanway-Harley felt that it would be gross and forward to force the subject with her brother, although she was certain that her silence meant unmeasured loss to him. Mrs.
Hanway-Harley remarked that it was good of the young lovers to bring their plans to her. She realized, however, that it was no more than a polite formality, for the affair long before had been taken out of her hands. Her consent to their wedding would sound hollow, even ludicrous, under the circumstances; still, such as it was, she freely granted it. Her objection had been the poverty of Mr.
In any event, Dorothy would wed whomsoever she decreed; Mrs. Hanway-Harley was deservedly certain of that. While this came to her mind, Richard the enterprising went laying plans for the daily desolation of an entire greenhouse. "Dorothy," observed Mrs. Hanway-Harley, after Richard had gone his way, "there you have a young man remarkable for two things: his dullness and his effrontery.
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