The entrance-way to the house, and the stairs up to the second floor, are all very traditional -- beautiful wooden floors and a winding staircase, expensive rugs. It's easy enough to memorise. On the second floor, however, her sense of the magic in the house will begin to strengthen. The furniture is all old fashioned, elegant, and as Childermass opens a doorway and begins to lead Nancy in her sense of direction will falter. It seems almost an impossibly long walk, longer than it should be, with so many twists and turns -- was it left there? Was it a right?

The Labyrinth spell is impossible to return through without a guide, so she may need to find another way out -- or else be very persuasive.

Once clear of it they step through into what is more a private library than a study. The very high ceilings of Norrell's Mayfair house mean he can have very intimidatingly tall book cases, and those line most of the walls. They are of a dark, elegantly carved in a French style -- something perhaps distantly amusing to anyone conscious of how often Norrell talks about English magic. A soft, warm light seems to fill the room -- although it is impossible to say where it comes from as nothing is lit. Norrell himself is sat at a desk under the high, wide mirror. The curtains to the vast windows are pulled shut against the storm, and he writes quickly.

For a few moments he ignores them, busying himself, before he looks up and frowns.

"Well!" he says, "help her get dry then! Where are the towels I asked for? Childermass, light the fire will you!"