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

[Heather Mace]

>>>>         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.]

"What's everyone talking about like one of us killed her?" Marjorie
demanded.  "What's going on?  What happened to Miss Diamond?!" she
asked the room.