Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130530130219/@comment-5674726-20130708001954

I think that Guinevere was a bit too hard on Arthur over the bed issue. He knew that she used to live with her father and part of the cottage was curtained off so I can see how he could think that there was a second bed and that, while the one he was using was in the living area and was the likely place for a guest, Guinevere's bed was in the curtained off area, which served as a bedroom. In other ways, Arthur's manners left a great deal to be desired but, as far as the bed goes, it was less a case of him not thinking of others and more a case of him not realising how simply people in the lower town lived.

He was genuinely shocked to realise that he was sleeping in the only bed.