Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
The scenario: Four friends gather at a cafe, looking forward to catching up. A woman with a tenuous connection to one of the four comes over to chat while waiting for her dining companion, who never shows. She proceeds to sit at the table, eat her lunch and monopolize the conversation.
But if you can catch her before she sits down, or when she realizes that her companion is not arriving, you can say, “We’re having a sort of meeting here that would bore you. I’m afraid you will have to excuse us. We’d be glad to see you some other time.” Although I have a comfortable couch, on one occasion she told me to get up from my easy chair to let her sit there instead. After a dinner party with other guests, she said, “You have food left over. I’d like to take some home with me.”
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