A brilliant short story >. Nothing much happen here but I love the allegory, how the 7 rooms represent the seven stages of life, though in my imagination, I love to interpret it as the seven circles of hell, and the black room is the worst one. The aristocrats represent humans who live in a pretentious, dream like world, afraid of dealing with reality, death, and the big ebony black clock which chimes each time reminds of the passage of Time - the end of which our life will eventually end horribly. I just love it. A short story but brilliant.