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`` It is a bad thing to speak of , but I will answer you the truth . '' `` Tell me about last night . '' `` Well , Mr. Holmes , I supped there , as the vicar has said , and my elder brother George proposed a game of whist afterwards . We sat down about nine o'clock . It was a quarter-past ten when I moved to go . I left them all round the table , as merry as could be . '' `` Who let you out ? ''