"Probably needs refurnishing from top to bottom, too, and a new roof.
I never saw a ruin yet that didn't leak. Remember those castles on
the Rhine? Will you ever forget how wet we got the day we went
through the one at--"
"They were abandoned, tumble-down castles," she reminded him.
"There isn't a castle in Europe that's any good in a rain-storm," he
proclaimed. "A mortgage can't keep out the rain and that's what every
one of 'em is covered with. Why old man Quiddox himself told me that
their castle had been shot to pieces in one of the revolutions and--"
"It is time you informed yourself about the country you are trying to
annex to the Blithers estate," she said sarcastically. "I can assist
you to some extent if you will be good enough to listen. In the first
place, the royal castle at Edelweiss is one of the most substantial
in the world. It has not been allowed to fall into decay. In fact, it
is inhabitated from top to bottom by members of the royal household
and the court, and I fancy they are not the sort of people who take
kindly to a wetting.
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