Chapter 25

Inside, there were no less than fourteen spacious rooms. A considerable number in a single-storey home. There was a formal lounge room, a dining area and a living room forming what his Aunt Beatrice had liked to call the “west wing.” In the middle of the house was the kitchen, with walk-in pantry, a sunroom—where his aunt had been fond of having her breakfast—and two bedrooms, one which Dane had earmarked for conversion into a home gym one of these days. Along the “east wing” were three more bedrooms, two with their own en suite bathrooms, the main bathroom, and the laundry, right at the end. The wall opposite the rooms was ceiling to floor glass, affording the occupant an uninterrupted view of the swimming pool and a good deal of the vast back garden.