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

[Nowsounds]

>
> "Lucy, this is the last time I holiday with you and Skeffers," Michael
> says, tossing back the brandy he poured himself after the news. "If I
> didn't know better, I'd think you two are cursed."
>
> He crosses to the dowager and looks at her hand. "Are you alright, Lady 
> Gower?"

Arabella looked down at her hand, a bit puzzled, and then said, "Oh, yes. 
It's just paint, Captain. I'm afraid I brushed against that daub of mine 
while getting Pamela's bag... If you have a handkerchief you can spare..."