What is the meaning of [No answer is also an answer]

If you ask a person a question and he does not reply, his very silence is an
answer in itself.

> ‘Have you been playing about with my typewriter?’ demanded young Tommy’s
sister. He pretended to be deep in the book he was reading. She did not ask
him a second time because she knew that he had been tampering with the machine
and did not want to admit it.

##### See also:

* Silence gives consent