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

[Dorothea Salo]

> "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...

	Thoroughly upstaged but none the worse for that, Pamela circled the 
edge of the room to approach her mother and her hostess. "Mrs Fitzroy, I 
*am* so terribly sorry to be late," she said. "I heard Mrs Evans and 
Miss Mauberly in the lift, you see, and I went down for Hodges... but 
they're all working on it now; I daresay the captives will be released 
quite shortly."