" When she hit the threshold to the portego, she pulled up, bracing her arms against the door frame to keep from spilling into the big open room.
Luca sat on a divan facing the Last Supper mosaic. Two unfamiliar men in mud-caked boots sat opposite him. Red woolen doublets peeked out from underneath tarnished breastplates. Silver broadswords dangled from their waists. They all stopped speaking when she appeared in the doorway. The two men immediately averted their eyes.
Luca reddened. “Cassandra,” he said haltingly, as if it were a struggle to merely form the three syllables of her name.
Cass realized she was standing in the portego in only her nightdress, having left Siena’s cloak in the kitchen. “Molte scuse,” she said, and darted for her room. Much as she was curious about the men, she had no desire to stand there being gawked at. "

― Fiona Paul , Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1)