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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I make my shy friend’s generosity plain?

Plus: Kissing elderly ladies, and avoiding annoying phone calls

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

Q. I have a friend who can be shy and inhibited. Recently, he was invited to stay on a Caribbean island by a generous and rich host, so wanted to take the host and his wife and the other members of the house party out to dinner. The host suggested a beach restaurant which, despite its informal appearance, then produced a bill for £700, with no facility for credit cards.

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