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

[Nowsounds]

>>
>> Marjorie came around the bar and picked up the gin bottle.  "She
>> was just here... I made her a gin and tonic, then another," she
>> said as she started to pour into a glass.  "But Mr. Hodges came
>> back from fixing the lift and took away her drink and she stormed
>> off... And then there was the blackout..."  She put down the
>> gin bottle and picked up the tonic.
>
 > "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..."

"Of course, Belle," Michael answers off-handedly.

> "Skeffers seems to have a dark cloud followiing him," Michael explains
> to the others. "He's been asked to investigate murders before. It's
> what he did before the war, you know."

"Thank you," Arabella said, a little distractedly, and took the proffered 
handkerchief, wiping her hand with it in a vigorous motion. "So, we have 
a... trained detective here? With experience in... murder?" She said the 
last word almost hesitantly, as if pulling back from its power.