The case of the missing dancers

Well here we are on Games Day 2009. After a very wet week, prayers have been answered and while you couldn't say the sun is shining on the Braemar Gathering at least it isn't raining...not yet anyway, but the day is still young. Richard and I are giving it a miss this year and hibernating at home. We'll go out tonight to the Moorfield Hotel where Castleton dancers are performing, and we are doing our bit by having guests staying in our apartment, and others in the B&B.
But let me tell you an amusing story of earlier in the week. On Wednesday evening we had our usual dance night (16 participants) in Castleton Hall, before 5 of us proceeded to our performance at the Invercauld. Margaret and Josie left the dance hall just ahead of Pat, Susie and I who switched off lights and locked doors etc. Recently in the Invercauld we have been given a bedroom to use as a changing room as the Colonel's Bed which we used previously has been being refurbished. We (Pat, Susie and I)arrived at the hotel and asked the young man on the desk which room we had tonight. 'I will just get you a key for one,' he said. 'Where are the other two dancers?' we asked. 'You are the first to arrive,'he replied handing us the key to room 10. We thought that perhaps they had gone to the toilet but when 10 minutes had past with no sign of them we began to wonder. Just then Sylvia arrived by car and we asked if she had seen any sign of the missing two ladies, but no the streets were deserted she said. Maybe they had forgotten they were dancing? So we phoned Margaret's house and caused her husband quite a panic. 'Can I speak to Margaret?' asked Pat. 'She's dancing at the Invercauld tonight,' said Graham. 'Well she's not here!' said Pat. We sent Bob off to see if the girls had gone to the Fife by mistake, but no. Then we panicked and wondered if we had locked them in Castleton Hall. Sylvia and Pat set off in the car to check the hall, the streets and Josie's house. Meanwhile the time was ticking by and we were supposed to be dancing. Susie and I waited and wondered. Suddenly the door to room 10 opened, and there stood Josie and Margaret, all dressed and ready to go. All four of us said at once, 'Where have you been?'
'We were waiting for you in the Colonels Bed!' said Josie. So the mystery was solved. They had obviously slipped in while the young man on the desk was elsewhere, and finding the Colonel's Bed once more in a habitable state had used that to get ready, all the time wondering why the rest of us were taking so long at Castleton Hall. We all saw the funny side eventually!!!!