[MaC] Separations: The Group in Vangie's flat

[Brenda McCartney]

--- Mel Mason <goldfired at oxmust.co.uk> wrote:

> >> Richard helped support Esme, while they made their way to the
> flat.
> >>
> >> "Perhaps some tea," he said, looking up at the doawager with a
> raised
> >> eyebrow. "That's good for a lady's nerves, no?" He gave her a
> crooked 
> >> smile.
> >> "I'm afraid I was always shooed out when my mother took to
> fainting or
> >> such."
> >>
> >
> > "Did it happen often?" Arabella asked dryly. "As for tea, I think
> it a 
> > splendid idea. For all of us..."
> 
> As soon as they walked into the flat, they saw Cyril Beaman and
> Braham Davis 
> standing somewhat nervously near the door of the lounge, eying
> Sweetie, who 
> was watching them malevolently from the sofa, his striped tail
> swaying 
> slowly with something of a cobra's menace.  Of Philip there was no
> sign - 
> and then came a clatter from the bathroom that suggested someone's
> presence 
> there. 

"Evening, ladies, sir," Cyril greeted them over his shoulder, his eyes
only briefly leaving the cat.  "We were just waiting for Phillip to
re-bandage his hand.  He tore the dressing on the rubble outside.  How
are things upstairs?"

<tag the newcomers>


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