Joc. How beautifully and artistically made are all these little towers and pyramids and columns and weathercocks!
The Kitchen—Eating Chamber—The Cellar
Vitr. We will now go down. This is the kitchen; this the eating-chamber; here is the wine-cellar and the larder, where we are annoyed by the attempts of thieves to get in.
Joc. How can thieves get in here? It is, as it seems to me, so carefully closed in, and the windows have iron gratings?
Vitr. Through chinks and borings.
Leo. There are also mice and weasels who strip you of all kinds of food!
The Back-door
Vitr. This is the back-door of the house, which, when the master is not at home, is always fastened with two bars, both locked and bolted.
Leo. Why have these windows no iron bars?
Vitr. Because they are only rarely open and they abut, as you see, on a narrow and dark by-street. Rarely any one puts his head out of the window. Therefore my master has decided that he will have them latticed.