From what Lumiere and Cogsworth discovered, the long passageway terminated at the steps of a winding staircase which began at the tenth floor. At such point and beyond, all they could see was that everything was paved and laden with gold all over. The two presumed that this was where it could finally lead up to the highest North tower...All the way, they had to use the Fifi-look-alike feather duster to clean up the age-old dust and filth which covered thickly the whole stretch of the passageway. In the dark, thankfully Lumiere-look-alike candle holder lit up the pathway in the darkness and cold of the narrow area. All those enchanted objects which originally came from and rightfully belonged to the King and Queen's Royal Chamber Suite were relegated and banished to the lowest point of the castle due to the curse. And it seemed that Cogsworth clock has its hands moving a little faster than when they had observed earlier...The minute hand was the one moving quicker than the other.
On the other hand, Maurice has long known to be a tough man and inventor who would not give up easily of all the goals he had passionately set on completing. Thus, without Belle's knowledge, in the late of the night with just a strong burning lamp to help his vision, he pressed on digging through the hard core of ice under the snow-covered ground all for the sake of Christmas...And God knows the best to have stopped the snowfall throughout the night for him to work successfully...
When morning came, Belle was searching all over the castle for her precious father, only to find him laying asleep under one of the sheds by Phillipe, their horse in the front main castle garden. Quickly taking off her robe to drape over the contentedly snoring Maurice, she was even more astounded by the ultimate display of his persistent labour. There, under the bright winter sun, she and the servants who soon came after her could see the uncovered huge slabs of extremely crystal clear ice brought up from under the ground. What else they could behold was that these clean blocks of ice contained all various colours of perfectly preserved and seemingly fresh roses with their roots intact frozen inside the ice. The whole sight nearly took their breaths away in wonder and disbelief...When Adam came along out of the castle in search of Belle and Maurice, he was even much more surprised by the whole unexpected garden beauty which greeted him...