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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Is there a polite way to ask for the return of a handbag full of cash?

Plus: What to say when someone asks your salary

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

Q. A friend regularly hires a stall at a general neighbourhood market in order to sell surplus second-hand clothes and women’s accessories. She recently sold one of her handbags to a regular customer whom she knows quite well. Subsequently she realised that she had left her day’s takings in the handbag (quite a sum of cash).

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