The active evil in all Sir George's wrong-doing was the fact that he conscientiously thought he was in the right.

Many a man has gone to hell backward--with his face honestly toward heaven.

Sir George had not spoken to Dorothy since the scene wherein the key to Bowling Green Gate played so important a part.
"Doll," said Sir George, "I thought you were at the stile with a man.

I was mistaken.

It was the Faxton girl.