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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What to do when an old friend snubs you

Plus: Cleaning etiquette and a missing gallery invitation

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

Q. What should I say the next time I run into a woman with whom I was at art school but who obviously does not want to be friends with me now? I heard she had moved in round here and I was shopping in the high street when I saw her for the first time in ten years, but she looked very uncomfortable and said, ‘Must dash’, and almost got run over so eager was she to get away from me.

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