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Let us see how certain others , closely connected with our story , fared before the day was ended . Victor Nevill spent the afternoon at one of his clubs , where he won pretty heavily at cards and drank rather more brandy than he was accustomed to take . Feeling consequently in good spirits , he determined to carry out a plan that he had been pondering for some time . He left the club at six o'clock , and an hour later a cab put him down at the lower end of Strand-on-the-Green . Mrs. Sedgewick admitted him to Stephen Foster 's house . The master had not returned from town , she said , but Miss Foster was at home . Nevill asked to see her , and was shown into the drawing-room , where a couple of red-shaded lamps were burning .