At Istanbul's Dolmabaghch Palace, from whose mullioned windows one can look out over the Bosporus to Asia Minor, there lay sick abed a medium-sized, lean, 59-year-old man with .
All its stained glass on the north side was blown in, along with the great mullioned windows of the Chapel Royal.
On the ground floor there was the thin, grinding sound of a glass cutter, and a mullioned window opened to admit dark figures.