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Puer led us inside and shut the door behind us. The interior of the house matched the outside decor, complete with an elegant eighteenth-century parlor to our right and a large dining room to our left. The stairs to the upper floors covered a wall to our left and deeper into the entrance hall. The stairs and its banister curved around the rear of the hall and out of sight to the second floor.
Dives turned to his servant and me. “Show Miss Combes to her room, Puer, and then I’ll explain what happened. She can have the one beside mine.”
Puer pursed his lips, but turned to me and gestured to the stairs. “If you’ll follow me.”
He guided me up the carpeted wooden stairs to the hall that stretched the entire length of the front of the house. I looked out a window and saw the entiret
