The couple

The pair of dashing newlyweds known only as the couple are so called for their puzzling lack of association with all other residents of the Manor. They are easily conjured before the mind's eye: he in a smart blue frock and top hat and she the vision of loveliness in a delicately bustled pink gown, strolling arm in arm through the rose garden. They are familiar to all. Anyone would call them a stylish ubiquity on picturesque evenings.

But while all know of them, few could claim a deeper acquaintance. For being apparently omnipresent they are very hard to find. They promenade hazily like the fond memories of a summer day.

And indeed, everyone is rather fond of this pair. Even those who have had deeper encounters with the couple, for such encounters do happen if they decide to initiate such a crossing of paths. Such moments are, for all the world to see, merely the light cordial banter of a genteel man and wife. But heed perhaps the creeping conviction that the encounter was well crafted and their words laden with hidden information.