Duke Ruffino's central hall is grand indeed, with vaulted ceilings and two camps of stern rose-stone statuary glaring at each other in rival neat rows lining each wall. You have passed through the hall many times before—though, you admit, only rarely have you ascended the central staircase that the herald is leading you towards.
You recollect as you climb the plush steps that there's a small banquet hall in the vicinity, where once your company attempted to entertain some of His Grace's visiting relations. Yes—there it is, the first door on the left in the immaculate hallway that meets you at the top of the staircase….
The door that you are now passing, stepping deeper into His Grace's inner sanctum.
Onward