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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: should I have asked out my rush-hour crush?

16 October 2021

9:00 AM

16 October 2021

9:00 AM

Q. On a train journey the other day I sat opposite someone I found immensely attractive. We struck up a conversation and talked for 40 minutes until he left the train, a few stops before my own destination. I am 90 per cent sure he returned my feelings, but he was rather a shy man and we had talked for just too short a time to merit the exchange of contact details.

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