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

[Ree Moorhead Pruehs]

At 03:46 PM 12/26/2004, you wrote:
>>>>"Don't mind him old boy."  James said to Anton, not even deigning to 
>>>>give Fitzroy a look.  James sighed, smashed a fist into his palm and 
>>>>mused aloud.  "Everyone in the building was invited to the party, 
>>>>weren't they?" he said. "Every last one, social hermit or not."
>>>>"It's one of us." James deduced, unhappily.
>>>
>>>>"No! No, it can't be!" Nicola protested. "There had
>>>>to..." her voice trailed off. "Oh... you're right.
>>>>Nobody could get into Mortmain Mansions and we were
>>>>all here at the party." She looked around the room at
>>>>the few stragglers that had been either too uneasy or
>>>>too respectful to traipse through and gawk at Nola's
>>>>body. "But... who?" She shivered in spite of her warm jacket.
>>>
>>>         Pamela's lips thinned. She had come to the same conclusion, but 
>>> need Mr. Drake frighten everyone with it? No point suggesting that 
>>> perhaps someone *had* broken in, given that all the flats were empty 
>>> tonight; that would not precisely reassure.
>>>
>>>         The thing to do was to remain calm and matter-of-fact. Pamela 
>>> patted Nicola's hand one more time and turned toward Lucinda. "Mrs. 
>>> Skeffington-Nottle? Your husband was asking for you; perhaps you would 
>>> come with me? Oh, and Mr. Hodges, we could do with whatever aprons -- 
>>> or table-linen, even -- you could find for us. Anything at all; it 
>>> needn't be new or even clean." Properly she ought to have asked Mr. 
>>> Fitzroy, as the flat they were in was his, but hundreds of years of 
>>> breeding firmly informed her that she simply could not speak to that 
>>> common, vulgar, *nasty* little man.
>>
>>Vangie cleared her throat. "I think perhaps our hostess should be told 
>>what is happening." Diffidently she added, "...and she was asking for her 
>>purse earlier, I can take care of that at the same time."
>
>(OOC - if you want to follow Hodges downstairs, you'll hear and see Esme)

[ooc: Vangie will do just that, but if she takes the purse she can return 
it to Esme.]