After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide. - Rupert Holmes

what were my impressions upon viewing for the first time the manor where you’d had me brought? My initial thought was “Toad Hall.” This was, of course, an inadequate comparison but the best I could muster considering the limited number of books I’d read that centered on soaring Gothic structures. (As a boy, I went nine pages into The Hunchback of Notre Dame before realizing it wasn’t a football story.)

So you’ve decided to commit a murder. Congratulations.

We know what Heaven or Hell may bring, but no man knoweth the mind of the King.