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Of course , Miss Lettice would be angry if she knew ; but there was nothing wrong in Mr. Sydney 's admiration , said Milly , lifting high her little round white chin ; and if he told her to keep silence she was bound to hold her tongue . This was a mean thing that Sydney had done , and he was not so hardened as to have done it without a blush . Yet so admirably does our veneer of civilization conceal the knots and flaws beneath it that he went to sleep in the genuine belief that he had saved his sister from a terrible danger , and the name of Campion from the degradation which threatened it . On the next day he reached Maple Cottage between four and five o'clock . `` How is your mistress ? '' he said to Milly . She had opened the door and let him in with a vivid blush and smile , which made him for a moment , and in the broad light of day , feel somewhat ashamed of himself .