So she dressed herself in her everyday clothes, and, taking the little parcel, she softly unfastened the door, and then she slipped down through the silent house and entered Sir John Wallis's study, and laid the packet which contained all the symbols of her success and her letter of confession on his desk.  Having done this, she turned away, came upstairs softly, and, going down another corridor, opened the door of her mother's room and went in.