Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary… | 26 August 2006

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 26 August 2006

Q. I have recently started going out with a new girlfriend. She is articulate, well-spoken, elegant, witty and polite — in short, a real catch. There is only one thing that puts me off: she holds her knife like a pen. You will accuse me of being an inveterate snob, which I hope I am not.

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