[MaC] Arriving at the Party ... Arabella and Esme

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>
> Esme started.  Sitting in her corner, she had been reading a letter that 
> she had pulled from her handbag, it seemed.  When Arabella spoke to her, 
> it fluttered from her fingers to the floor.
>
> "Oh ... it's all Marty's doing," she said nervously.  "He thought it would 
> be a good opportunity to meet ... to meet ... well, all the people here. 
> War is bringing us closer together, that's what Marty says."
>
> Esme didn't looked particularly overwhelemed by the proespect.

"Really?" Arabella said. It didn't seem like the sort of sentiment that 
would occur naturally to a man like Fitzroy, but perhaps there was more to 
him than met the eye. With one graceful movement she reached down and 
retrieved the fallen letter. "There you are..." She wondered why Esme 
Fitzroy was reading -- or re-reading -- a letter in the middle of a party...