Chapter FiveAs soon as Pandora and the three men entered the Salon from the terrace, Kitty cried out in a furious voice:
“Where the hell’ve you all been? And where’s Norvin? I told you to bring him back with you.”
“We could not find him,” Freddie answered, “but I expect he will turn up in a moment or two.”
“There’s something funny going on here,” Kitty said disagreeably, “and I don’t like it!”
Pandora did not wait to hear any more. She walked across the Salon and without speaking to anyone went into the hall and closed the door behind her.
She realised that once again the three women had had too much to drink, and Caro was in fact sprawling across a sofa with her eyes closed.
‘How can gentlemen find them amusing when they look like that?’ she wondered.
She had noticed at dinner how
