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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What should I do when my dinner guests dive for their iPads?

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11 January 2014

9:00 AM

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

Q. We had our son’s fiancée and her family to stay recently. After dinner, expecting conversation, we were shocked to see them all slumped in our drawing room staring at their ‘tablets’ and, I presume, playing on the internet. What should my wife and I have done? I was tempted to do the crossword or read a book but this seemed rude.

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