He was so close to getting a beautiful female knight as a wife and with but one sentence, he ruined it completely. He truly is a sage, a virgin one. Not that he won't get her later on, but whatever, this story kinda sucks.
@BlankDott - it doesn't take much courage to enter the dungeon for the first time, just recklessness and ignorance. Recovering from a failure like this will be harder.
@Kampfarsch - I think "mansion" is a term appropriated by salespeople to make apartments sound more appealing.