[MaC] Outside Number One Flat: Pamela and Philip

[Mel Mason]

>> > Philip waited patiently as Pamela rested her ankle, making small talk
>> > about
>> > her WAAF duties. As they waited, footsteps began descending from
>> > above. After a
>> > glance up, Philip said, "Ah! Here's Mr. Hodges now."
>> >
>> > "Hullo."  Hodges greeted them as the older man huffued down the
>> > stairs.
>> > "Everything allright here?  I heard that Mrs Evans is stuck in the
>> > left.  I may
>> > need a hand to get it working again."
>>
>> Mr. Beaman arrived after Hodges.  "Ah, Lady Hutchinson.  What do we
>> have here?" he said as looked inquiringly toward the elevator.
>
> "Might be a bit of help if I can, old boy," Michael offered. He had
> followed Phillip and Pamela down the stairs and was just emerging from
> flat 4 with two canvas tool bags. "Do we need to go to the roof?" he
> asked the super.
>
> "Perhaps Lady Hutchinson and Pilot Officer Powell would be so kind as
> to go reassure the ladies that we've the situation well in hand," the
> senior officer suggested.
>

The situation was now that the two ladies - Mrs Evans and Miss Mauberley - 
were inside the lift between the fourth and fifth floors but, thanks to the 
design and structure of the lift, could clearly see and hear all that was 
happening.  Philip and Pamela had come up from the first floor (and more 
lately the third floor), and so were slightly below the lift, while Michael 
Coldstream-Briggs had followed them up.

Hodges and Beaman were above, and sould see the problem - a chain had come 
loose on one of the cogs.  It needed to be reattached, tightened and oiled.