octōgintā   ūnus

"Greetings from the Duke to whoever lives here."

The person outside spoke again. The two had no reason to let such in.

Obviously from the voice, twas quite easy to say that twas a man. And there was something strange about the person outside.

Vulcan thought that he had the time to think about the whole thing and decide whether to let the person outside in or not.

Happened that the person was from the Duke of the land. It obviously then wasn't the owner of the house.

What was the Duke's messenger possibly doing there? On what occasion? For what reason? To what effect?

He had no idea how to make the thoughts seem. Probably the person was trying to play a game of the mind with the two.

A thought flickered across his consciousness. He couldn't let it slide. It could be the owner of the house who actually wanted to enter but couldn't and decided to act like the messenger of the Duke. That made sense to him.