No news is good news?

Have you ever sat on pins and needles....of course you have - everyone has had the experience of "expectation." Waiting with bated breathe....I didn't have a clue where that expression came from but it's something I've used growing up so I did a little research.
Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice, in which Shylock says to Antonio: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.

The term means a heightened sense of expectation so intense that it becomes a tangible feeling....I never knew I was such a literate person to go around quoting Shakespeare and Mark Twain, but now you know how I feel! I'm waiting with bated breath and assuming that no news is good news. If the boys were hung up somewhere I'm assuming we would have heard.
Keep posted for breaking news! I hope soon!