heretofore could n't see any difference in the boots presented , and no one was actually claiming as a fact that these were the fabled boots of vetinari , but well-worn yet still useful boots floated down from the upper floors to the servants ' quarters on a tide of noblesse oblige , and if these were n't the boots of the man himself then they had almost certainly , at the very least , sometimes been in the same room as his feet .