[MaC] Richard, Pamela, Nicola and James socializing

[Jvstin(Mindspring)]

on 12/23/2004 10:50 PM Dorothea Salo said the following:
>> "Oh, you're too kind," Nicola effervesed, her smile
>> widening. "And you look lovely as well, darling- that
>> blue complements you *so* well." She took a closer
>> look at Pamela's gown and said, "You know, the more I
>> look at it, the more I see that dress is exquisitely
>> designed. You absolutely must tell me where you got it
>> or I just don't know what I'll do."
> 
> 
>     Pamela laughed aloud: a pleasant enough laugh, though it would not 
> have done on the stage or on film. "You *have* been talking to my 
> mother; I suspected so, and now I know," she said. "I rescued it from 
> her closet last summer, and then I rescued it from the horrid welter of 
> lace and ribbon it was buried in. They made a single dress in Mum's day 
> with enough fabric for three; it was easy enough to put this one 
> together. I've some new pattern books in our flat, if you'd like to look 
> at them sometime."
> 
James listened, with half an ear, and turned to look at Richard.

"Not that I like to talk too much business" James said.  "But I might as 
well begin with you, since for the life of me, I can't imagine why you'd 
stay down here in London.  You're from the North, aren't you?" he asked 
Richard.

{Tag Richard, Nicola, Pamela}