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Number Two , who objects to be left behind , goes with him as far as London . There he trumps up the first story that comes into his head about rents in the country , and a house in Lincolnshire that is too damp for her to trust herself in ; and so , leaving her for a few days in London , starts boldly for Darrock Hall . His notion was to wheedle your mistress out of the money by good behavior ; but it seems he started badly by quarreling with her about a fiddle-playing parson -- '' `` Yes , yes , I know all about that part of the story , '' I broke in , seeing by Mr. Dark 's manner that he was likely to speak both ignorantly and impertinently of my mistress 's unlucky friend ship for Mr. Meeke . `` Go on to the time when I left my master alone in the Red Room , and tell me what he did between midnight and nine the next morning . '' `` Did ? '' said Mr. Dark . `` Why , he went to bed with the unpleasant conviction on his mind that your mistress had found him out , and with no comfort to speak of except what he could get out of the brandy bottle .