[MaC] A pause in the music - Back in the lounge

[Margaret Dean]

Heather Mace wrote:
> 
> > The party was continuing after the disruption of the warden's visit ...
> > There was still no sign of Esme (although Cyril might have re-appeared
> > by now).
> >
> > When suddenly the music of the piano in Anton Barowenski's flat broke
> > off abruptly.  A pause, and then Anton himself appeared at the service
> > door of the flat.  No-one had ever seen him like this - white faced,
> > shaking, his dark eyes wild.
> >
> > "Come," he said.  "You must come ..."  His eyes moved around the room,
> > as though searching for someone.  And then suddenly, shockingly, he sank
> > to the ground, buried his face in his hands, and wept.
> >
> > "Come on," said Oswald briefly.
> >
> > (OOC - who's staying with Barowenski and who's going to his flat?)
> 
> Marjorie hopped off her stool and rushed to Barowenski's side.
> "Goodness!  What's happened?" she asked the pianist, trying to
> gently get him to sit up by grasping his shoulders.

Marion Mauberly, who had been standing near the bar when the
pianist emerged into the room, took one step, almost
involuntarily, toward the distressed man.  As Marjorie and then
Nicola and Philip descended on him, however, her reporter's
instincts evidently took over.  Hurrying past the little group,
she followed a little way behind Oswald and Pamela, through the
service entrance into Anton's flat.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>