Okay, so am I really the only reader who thinks that this: > [Regarding the layout of the Consort's chambers] > "This balcony, for so we will call it, was entirely secluded > from the rest of the Palace, and could not be reached except > through the Consort's own bedchamber, which was always > watched by a pair of guards (not to mention the other three > pair who guarded the different entrances to the Consort's > suite.) All of this, in addition to providing an excellent > setting for Luin's farcical murder drama, _Who Dropped Her > First_, had the result, if the Consort wished for her privacy,..." > sounds like this: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml