"Of course it matters!" Milly looks at him, almost shocked. "Of course it does...it'd be so selfish of me to whine about all of this new stuff being knocked to the ground at someone who's less fortunate!"

So now it's whining. Before when she'd thought he was just some rude guy with no regard for anyone else, that had been different! Then she was totally the victim. But now she's got the look of someone who's just found a stray cat that absolutely does not want to go home with anyone, and she is going to take him home with her. In a manner of speaking.