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

[Margaret Dean]

Mel Mason wrote:
> 
> >> "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."

"I last recall speaking to him at about the same time I spoke to
Miss Diamond," Marion said slowly, "or rather, she made a comment
about something I said to him.  After that..."  She shook her
head.  "I just don't remember.  I wasn't paying particular
attention to either of them.

"I think we may as well all go back upstairs, though, don't you?"
she asked the men.  "I don't see any point in staying down here."


<tag Richard, Anton>


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>