[MaC] Arriving at the Party ... Arabella, Pamela, Michael & Philip & Ladies in Lift

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> Pamela started toward the stairs, then stopped. Had
> Hodges gone to the
> party, or was he moping by himself in Number One flat? She
> wouldn't put
> it past Marty Fitzroy not to have invited him. But the delay,
> the delay
> if she ran all the way downstairs and Hodges wasn't there...
>
> She decided quickly, and hurried back to the penthouse
> stairs, looking
> for someone who could carry word to the party while she ran
> downstairs.

Arabella had just arrived on the landing. She was saying something to the 
intense young pianist - something about a record she had heard the other 
day, a new recording of Liszt - when she saw her daughter. "Pamela, dear, 
what is it?"