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1 " But fancy that muckle great place and only two auld folk biding in it! It would house a regiment. How many rooms did you say it has, Chrissie?""Over two hundred... there's an indoor staff of thirty-seven to keep it going.""God Almighty!" Grandpa said. "Thirty-seven servants to look after two useless auld folk.""How many outside ones there are, I don't know", Daddy said. "There must be hundreds...""They'd be better employed doing something else instead of pandering to the tastes of two half-daft auld buggers. "
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