[MaC] Richard: Wandering (to the Skeffington-Nottles' Flat)
Mel Mason
goldfired at oxmust.co.uk
Sat Jan 1 19:14:37 EST 2005
>> "Oh..." It was hard to tell at first whether Richard was disappointed,
>> or relieved. He motioned behind him. "Mister Fitzroy was trying to
>> escape, and we were running him down. I think I'd make a sore man at
>> arms, getting lost in my own building. I thought they might have
>> brought him back here.
>>
>> "Anything new down here?"
>
> "I believe they've taken Mr. Fitzroy back upstairs," said Marion
> Mauberley, coming from further inside the room to stand next to
> Barowenski. "We were just about to head back up there
> ourselves. No one," she added, giving Richard a hard look,
> "should be wandering about alone, under the circumstances."
>
"You had best come in," said Anton, stepping back. "But I have no more to
tell you than I already to Mar ... Miss Mauberley, Mr Skeffington-Nottle and
Mr Drake. I played the piano in the dark - I step outside to smoke a
cigarette - I go back and play once more - and I realise that she is on the
couch, that she is dead."
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