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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Dare I put my wife and three ex-mistresses all at the same table?

Plus: When an old crush comes back on the market; staying in Oxford; and a daughter-in-law’s debts

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

Q. I have learned that someone I much admired in youth is about to become single again. I only have the sketchiest details but am single myself and keen to know more. The one person who knows everyone and would know everything is a valued and highly amusing friend of mine, but she is also massively indiscreet and interfering.

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