Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your problems solved | 14 February 2004

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 14 February 2004

Dear Mary…

Q. What would be a fitting response to the extremely patronising remark ‘My goodness, you’ve got him well trained!’ This whenever my husband serves, clears (and has often prepared) a dinner party. Such behaviour is still obviously unacceptable to the majority of guests, even in these enlightened times, and among forty-somethings.

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