"And when does she find time?"
"She goes when she is dressed in the morning. Before first class."
"Six o'clock," said Lucy. "Horrible."
"It's no worse than any other time," they said. "At least one is fresh, and there is no hurry, and you can have the gym. to yourself. Besides, it's the only possible time. The boom has to be put away before first class."
"She doesn't have to go," Stewart said, "the knack has come back. But she is terrified she will lose it again before the Dem."
"I can understand that, my dear," Dakers said. "Think what an immortal fool one would feel hanging like a sick monkey from the boom, with all the elite looking on, and Froken simply stabbing one with that eye of hers. My dear, death would be a happy release. If Donnie isn't doing her usual chore for Rouse, where is she? She's the only one not here."
"Poor Don," Thomas said, "she hasn't got a post yet." Thomas with her junior-of-three in Wales was feeling like a millionaire.
"Don't worry over Don," Hasselt said, "the Irish always fall on their feet."
But Miss Pym was looking round for Innes, and not finding her. Nor was Beau there.
Stewart, seeing her wandering eye, interpreted the question in it and said: "Beau and Innes wanted me to tell you how sorry they were to miss the party, and to hope that you would be their guest at another one before the end of term."