For a long time they continued their way down passages and corridors, until it seemed to Roger that it was a town, rather than a building, that he was traversing.

At last his conductor pushed aside a hanging, and entered an apartment.
"These are my rooms," he said.

"You are now master here.

All the nobles of the council, and those whom the king wishes to have about his person, have suites of apartments in the palace.

I hope some day to have the pleasure of entertaining you on my own estate, which lies a day's journey away to the northeast of the lake.