Should he tell him all?
It would only increase his grief.

On the other hand, silence would oblige him to play a difficult part.

The old man advised him to say nothing; he could explain all later on.
"What a fine fellow Noel is!" murmured old Tabaret, as he regained his apartments as quietly as possible.

He had been absent from home twenty-four hours; and he fully expected a formidable scene with his housekeeper.

Mannette was decidedly out of temper, and declared once for all, that she would certainly seek a new place if her master did not change his conduct.
She had remained up all night, in a terrible fright, listening to the least sound on the stairs, expecting every moment to see her master brought home on a litter, assassinated.