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

[Mel Mason]

>> "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...
>
As she passed the letter back, Arabella was only able to see one odd word 
'rozzers', heavily underlined, before Esme thrust it back into her bag.

> 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."
>

"Oh dear," said Esme faintly.  "What a thing to happen!"