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`` All right . I 'll be there . '' `` Young blighted Albert , '' said Keggs the butler , shifting his weight so that it distributed itself more comfortably over the creaking chair in which he reclined , `` let this be a lesson to you , young feller me lad . '' The day was a week after Lord Marshmoreton 's visit to London , the hour six o'clock . The housekeeper 's room , in which the upper servants took their meals , had emptied . Of the gay company which had just finished dinner only Keggs remained , placidly digesting . Albert , whose duty it was to wait on the upper servants , was moving to and fro , morosely collecting the plates and glasses .