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

[Margaret Dean]

"Pruehs, Ree M." wrote:

> > >> "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."
> 
> Vangie chuckled. "Perhaps half a kingdom..."
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> "OH!" said Vangie.

"Drat!" said Marion, a bit more strongly.
 
<tag Vangie, anyone who notices there's a problem with the lift>


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>