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She saw many incidental advantages in the plan , not the least of which was that Mr. Millard would be a familiar in the house during the Baron 's stay . Hilbrough acquiesced with a rueful sense that he should be clumsy enough at entertaining a foreigner and a man of title . Mrs. Hilbrough thanked Millard heartily for his obliging kindness , but what he cared most for was that Miss Callender 's serious face shone with pleasure and gratitude . Having accepted another invitation for the evening , Millard took his leave soon after ten o'clock , proposing to come at a later time to help Mrs. Hilbrough -- `` and Miss Callender , I hope , '' he added with a bow to Phillida -- to make up the list . Having but two blocks to go , he declined , in favor of Miss Callender , the Hilbrough carriage , which stood ready at the door . The close carriage , with only Phillida for occupant , rattled down Fifth Avenue to Madison Square , and along Broadway to Union Square , then over eastward by Fourteenth street , until after a turn or two it waked the echoes rudely in a quiet cross street , stopping at length before a three-story house somewhat antique and a little broader than its neighbors . Phillida closed and bolted the outer doors , and then opened one of the inner ones with a night-key , and made her way to what had been the back parlor of the house .