Status Updates From Castelul din Otranto

There's a great part in the middle of this book where the tyrannical Prince of Otranto, Manfred, rants for 3-4 pages to a group of visiting knights on business from another lord, and knights stay silent and sigh and wait around until they can't take it anymore; that's to say, there's a great part in the middle of this book where I begun to think that many readers have taken Walpole's famed novel too seriously!;-)