[She stops and blinks and then looks up, and laughs reaching up to tap him on the head with a little smirk. ]

I never thought about that. I plodded along and around those staircases without a thought when I was younger.

[another laugh, this one more hearty.]

The torture chamber had me thinking that they were very British, and would always be British. They never held a candle to Russia. They still weep thinking of our prisons, and aren't even tortured in the ways of old. Well.. mostly.