[MaC] The Lift is Fixed!

[Pruehs, Ree M.]

> > With the aid of Mr Beaman, who showed a great facility for 
> the skills, 
> > and
> > the appearance of some unexpectedly ingenious tools from the Group 
> > Captain, Hodges was soon able to fix the lift, so that 
> Hodges scrambled 
> > clear, the lift was restarted, and Mrs Evans and Miss 
> Mauberley were 
> > triumphantly released.  Then, accompanied by Tabitha Rosen 
> who had paused 
> > to watch, the whole group were able to make a triumph 
> entrance to the 
> > cocktail party, quite eclipsing the arrival of Nola 
> Diamond, who was 
> > already on her second martini.
> 
> At the sight of them, Arabella excused herself from her 
> little group and 
> came to greet them. "My dear," she said to Evangeline Evans. 
> "Was it very 
> disconcerting? I was just talking to your nephew -- what a 
> fine young man." 

Vangie smiled at her. "I could not agree more," she said warmly, then
chuckled and added, "And now I want a drink. I think we've earned it!"

> She turned with an equally admiring smile to Marion Mauberley. "Miss 
> Mauberly... I trust we'll see some such incident, properly 
> exaggerated, in a 
> future work?"