our reconnaissance party , five large rustic noblemen and i , all armed , two with bows and arrows as well as swords , one carrying a lit torch as it was still the darkling hours , took to the castles upper stairwell , finally discovering , through the grand auspices and useless proprieties of lurking about outside the room 's wood-chiseled , five-foot-wide and four-inch-think arched and recessive stone umber doorway , that there was indeed a most hideously god-damned lustful idiot plebian in there with my wife .