List steps the prince's friends take to make themselves safe from the Red Death.

The Prince and his friends lock the doors, stock enough food to survive, and celebrate their presumed safety.

A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnace and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself.