"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. If you're talking about 'a stride closer to the kitchen', I just meant that it'd be quicker for the maids to service you if you needed anything. And with none of the beds here occupied, it's no worse than any of the regular rooms at all (which justifies my charging you the full bill). You're just as close to being food in this room as you would be in any other room. Considerably less I should add, since some of the normal tenants tend to barge into the other tenants' rooms in the middle of the night when they get hungry (so I should actually be charging you extra)."<br/><br/>"But you needn't lie about something like this. You're not really worrying about being eaten, are you? I think I know what the real problem is." Sophia's eyes grew hot as she turned from a forced politeness to a controlled rage. "You think you're the real bee's knees, don't you? You think you're too high and mighty to be staying down here with us lower-class scum, hmm? For a measly gem you want us to kick out one of the other tenants just so you won't have to sleep with us rats, is that it? Now, you're going to sleep here, or you're going to sleep outside in the dirt. Maybe then you'll have more to worry about than just being eaten, mm?"