The main party had returned early from the hothouse, there are now about sixty or so people queuing in the main entrance, to access the great hall, library, and the armoury, “we’ll detour around them “ with that Elly opens a small side door and says “we’ll take the short cut, mind the steps”
With that you follow her down the dimly lit narrow circular stone staircase, the ever present old man close behind, at the bottom you stumble, and fall against the Dukes wife, in the confusion you don’t feel the hypodermic needle in your thigh, you begin to feel strange, your hearing somehow more sensitive as the sound of Lady Helens spike heel shoes reverberated on the old stone floor “are you alright Mrs Smith?”
You are aware that the Duke’s wife is
