Blind Corner by Dornford Yates — Read

By the time I awoke the next morning some order had been restored, and a table, upon which Rowley was serving breakfast, had been set in the harness-room. My head was sore and tender, but did not ache, and, though I would have liked to go out and breathe some fresh air -- for neither by door nor window did the harness-room give upon the outside of the castle -- I felt very little the worse for anything that had happened the night before.

Then Mansel and Hanbury appeared from the kitchen hall, and I learned that Carson and Bell were guarding the kitchen-quarters from the first floor of the house. To command the courtyard was simple, for this could be done from any window that looked upon it: and, as luck would have it, the southwest corner of the castle ran into a staircase-turret, from which anyone approaching the kitchen from the meadow side could be easily shot down.