"Listen, man, I'm doing this! If you wanna help, fine… If not, nobody's forcing you to stay."
Like any other loud sound in the castle, the echo brought back an amplified version of Joseph's annoyance.
His friend left the room.
After briefly roaming around the ground floor, he came across the exit to the walled back garden and sat on the steps, which reminded him - as it had surely happened to Roxanne conversely - of the ones in Joseph's yard.
When he had remained there for a couple of minutes, he saw that across, in the distance, among the trees, a grey dress was watching him.