DEAR MISS MANNERS: I gave a dinner party where one person was a smoker while the remaining guests were not. The smoker excused himself to go outside to smoke during the meal.
Should I, as hostess, accompany him, leaving my husband to entertain the remaining guests? Or should we leave the smoker to his own devices?
GENTLE READER: Do you smoke? And if so, are you so heavily addicted that you feel you have to disrupt a dinner party in order to indulge?
Such is the unfortunate plight of your absent guest. Why you would consider imitating him, Miss Manners cannot imagine.
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