The next evening, the second strange thing happened. Mr Parkes, the servant, visited Stephen and Mrs Bunch in Mrs Bunch's room. He did not often come to see them there. When he came in, he didn't at first notice that Stephen was there. He seemed very nervous and uneasy. 'Mr Abney will have to get his own wine if he wants a drink in the evenings,' he said. 'If I can't go down and get it in the daytime. I won't go at all. There's something very strange down there under the house, you know maybe it's the wind or maybe it's rats, but 1 don't think so ... and I don't like it.