Some vocab:
- dungeon: A dark, often underground chamber or cell used to confine prisoners.
- poignant: sharply distressing or painful to the feelings
- destitute: Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
- shilling: a former British and Australian silver or cupronickel coin worth one twentieth of a pound: not minted in Britain since 1970.
- dinner suit: formal suit for evening events and social functions.
