[MaC] Breaking the news

[Mel Mason]

"Thank you, Mister...Davis, is it?" Philip said. "Let's go and get this 
resolved." With a nod to the others present, he turned and headed for the 
stairs.

"I hope you don't mind the stairs," he said over his shoulder to Braham. "No 
offense meant to Mr. Hodges, but I'm not inclined to take the lift at the 
moment."

As they went downstairs to the front foor of the flat and out to where the 
main stairs were, they saw Cyril Beaman just inside the half-open front door 
of Anton Barwenski's flat.  He was straightening up - as though he had been 
kneeling, and had just risen to his feet again.


(OOC - carrying on, or stopping for a word?)