Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your Problems Solved | 4 September 2004

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 04 September 2004

Dear Mary…

Q. Last week I arrived to stay with some English friends near St Remy and was shown to a most delightful and certainly ‘best’ spare bedroom — with glorious views over the Camargue and beyond. You can imagine my astonishment when, on climbing into my luxurious bed later that night and folding the essential but always romantic mosquito net around the bed, a pair of extra-large men’s boxer shorts dropped on top of me.

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