Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary: How do I get my friends to leave after a dinner party?

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issue 10 September 2022

Q. We have made available our mews cottage – 30 yards from our main house – to a woman with small children, who has had a tough time recently through no fault of her own. She will be staying pending her divorce. Our problem is that she keeps asking us to dinner.

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