[the house is fine and stately, with an eye for taste - someone knows fashion, but blends it with timelessness in the way things are and are arranged. a man who could buy his title clearly could acquire all the rest as well in such a degree that could not be called tacky.
Monte Cristo walks up the stairs on quiet feet, attracting notice from none yet.]
For one or two, it may become necessary. They shall be accomplices to this lie, a security to it. That you arrived in the night will be no shocking matter.
[at the top of the staircase, there is something - like a movement in the air, but the man does not turn his eyes to it. instead, he heads down the hall to a set of double doors, pausing with his hand on the handle.]
Do not accompany me in here. I shall be out presently, and we may retire to the sitting room at that time.
[he'll leave Andersen there, in the hallway, and the movement seems to get closer when he does.]
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Monte Cristo walks up the stairs on quiet feet, attracting notice from none yet.]
For one or two, it may become necessary. They shall be accomplices to this lie, a security to it. That you arrived in the night will be no shocking matter.
[at the top of the staircase, there is something - like a movement in the air, but the man does not turn his eyes to it. instead, he heads down the hall to a set of double doors, pausing with his hand on the handle.]
Do not accompany me in here. I shall be out presently, and we may retire to the sitting room at that time.
[he'll leave Andersen there, in the hallway, and the movement seems to get closer when he does.]