She would have been indignant at the assertion, but I am positive it was not ALWAYS taken out at night.

In this part of the castle were the dining and drawing rooms, and immediately over the latter, a state bedroom in which nobody had slept for many years.
It was into a narrow passage, no wider than itself, the door led.
From this passage a good-sized hall opened to the left--very barely furnished, but with a huge fireplace, and a great old table, that often had feasted jubilant companies.

The walls were only plastered, and were stained with damp.

Against them were fixed a few mouldering heads of wild animals--the stag and the fox and the otter--one ancient wolf's-head also, wherever that had been killed.
But it was not into this room the laird led his son.

The passage ended in a stone stair that went up between containing walls.