[MaC] Richard, Pamela, Nicola and James socializing

[Dorothea Salo]

> "Oh, you're too kind," Nicola effervesed, her smile
> widening. "And you look lovely as well, darling- that
> blue complements you *so* well." She took a closer
> look at Pamela's gown and said, "You know, the more I
> look at it, the more I see that dress is exquisitely
> designed. You absolutely must tell me where you got it
> or I just don't know what I'll do."

	Pamela laughed aloud: a pleasant enough laugh, though it would not have 
done on the stage or on film. "You *have* been talking to my mother; I 
suspected so, and now I know," she said. "I rescued it from her closet 
last summer, and then I rescued it from the horrid welter of lace and 
ribbon it was buried in. They made a single dress in Mum's day with 
enough fabric for three; it was easy enough to put this one together. 
I've some new pattern books in our flat, if you'd like to look at them 
sometime."