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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: how can we stop friends inviting ‘locals’ to their house party?

3 February 2024

9:00 AM

3 February 2024

9:00 AM

Q. At my request, a friend arranged an invitation to lunch at an exclusive sporting club in a well-known resort. The friend did not accompany us, and on arrival my wife and I discovered our host to be a very senior member of the club and we were expected to join him at his own table.

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