"Your cabinet-workers will have a busy time, Pontius."
"Nay, the hanging-makers may be glad; wherever we can we will close the door-ways with heavy curtains."
"And what will you do with this damp abode of fogs, which, if I mistake not, must adjoin the dining-hall?"
"We will turn it into a garden filled with ornamental foliage."
"That is quite admissable—and the broken statues?"
"We will get rid of the worst."
The Apollo and the nine Muses stand in the room you intend for an audience-hall—do they not?"
"Yes."
"They are in fairly good condition, I think."
"Urania is wanting entirely," said the steward, who was still holding the plan out in front of him.