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Upon the whole Dolly decided he was wise to go abroad , instead of remaining to face the domestic difficulty . `` He will write to her , '' she thought , `` tell her all , and she will be very indignant , and think about honour and honesty , and all the rest of it ; but she will not , if he is wise , know where to address a letter to him at present . Then she will grow anxious , both about him and the future of the children , and at the end of six months I give her this parcel , when the whole affair is settled and she need feel no scruples about taking the money , and then she will feel touched to remember he thought of her , and then she will relent and we will find out where he is ; perhaps he may write now and then to me , and she will go to him , or he will come back to her , my poor dear Lenny ! '' Having completed which pleasing programme of the Werners ' future , Mrs. Mortomley ought to have gone to sleep , but she could not do so , and towards four o'clock she became so intolerant of her own wakefulness that she rose and , stealing into the room where Lenore lay fast asleep , dressed herself noiselessly and went downstairs , and , letting herself out , walked across the road and along a footpath leading to the Lea , which crossed the field in which stood the shed where she had established her factory . Not a likely-looking building , and yet it is in the least pretentious factories that fortunes are made , -- successes won ; and Mrs. Mortomley thanked God every time she looked across the meadow and beheld the red-tiled roof which covered the `` Hertfordshire Colour Works '' that Lang had so strenuously and -- as it turned out -- so wisely advised her to establish . The name of Mortomley had a certain power still , and , though the business letters were signed in Dolly 's scrawl , `` D. Mortomley , '' people did not stop to inquire whether it was an A or a D who was able to supply them with the colours they required . Neither was the new company worse thought of because they were able to supply so very little .