[MaC] Richard: Wandering (to the Skeffington-Nottles' Flat)

[Mel Mason]

>> "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."
>
> Richard stepped in. He waved his hand at Anton. "Oh, I'm not here as a
> questioner. We have people for that, obviously. I was simply in hailing
> distance..." He thought a moment. "You... wouldn't happen to be aware of
> where Mr. Fitzroy was when you were taking a break?"
>

Almost involuntarily, it seemed, Anton glanced at Marion.

"I do not know," he said slowly.  "I assumed ... he was in his own flat. 
But you would know that better than ... better than me."