Thanks! And I shall bow to your wisdom regarding the duvet... Like I explained above, I wasn't really thinking of 'duvet' as a special kind of bedding item, more as a synonym for a blanket... A failure of English vocabulary rather than historical research...

And I have to agree with you, Sam would have so gone and paid for high quality bedding, at least as soon as he came to terms with the fact that he was stuck there for a while...