Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your Problems Solved | 12 October 2002

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 12 October 2002

Dear Mary…

Q. Last week I had dinner in a restaurant with some old friends whose number included a woman we all like a lot with her new (younger) boyfriend. The latter responded to every question about himself and his work as though he was his own public-relations officer. Everything was going very well, everyone rated him very highly, all his projects were extremely successful (he is in the film business) – it was most off-putting.

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