Said cousin, though, had finally woken up from the insistent ringing of all his phones, and had come down into the lobby because he remembered something vaguely Marlene-shaped lurking on the horizon.
When he saw Marlene being escorted outside by none less than the security chief, he had to lean against a pillar with giggling.
But then, for the sake of not having his mother scold him on the phone as anything else, he darted after them.
"Oh my god, what has she done," he panted, arriving at the door just as Abrams and Marlene did, "do I have to pay a fine?"