[MaC] A mishap on the way to the party: Evangeline & Marion

[Mel Mason]

>> >The clanking of the lift announced its arrival from the floor
>> >below.  As it halted, Vangie could see that Marion Mauberly was
>> >inside.  She smiled when she saw Vangie and opened the iron
>> >grille for her.
>> >
>> >"Is Philip coming?" she asked.
>>
>> "He'll still be a bit....said he'd take the stairs," Vangie said, 
>> stepping
>> in.  =Stubborn pride,= she thought, but not unfondly. She smiled at the
>> younger woman. "How lovely you look!"
>>
>> She closed the grille again, and the elevator creaked upward.
>
> "And you look just like the Duchess of Windsor," Marion replied,
> and added on a teasing note, "Well worth giving up a kingdom
> for."
>
> As the lift slowly ascended to the floor above, she did a quick
> rummage through her own gold-and-black clutch purse.  "Oh, good,
> I didn't forget my pills.  It would be a bore to have to go down
> and fetch them."
>
> Vangie was aware that Marion suffered from occasional migraines,
> and habitually carried a tube of little blue pills.
>

And then the lift stopped.  Abruptly.

And suspended between two floors.