All this talk of etiquette reminds me of the 'Country House Week-end Party' story. A young blade, at the gathering, is invited into the bed of the host's daughter and spends a blistering night of passion with her. The next morning, at breakfast, she cuts him dead. Confused and hurt he asks her, at the first opportunity, why? ''Young man'' she replies, ''I do not converse, in public, with gentlemen to whom I have not been formally introduced.''