On a recent Saturday evening, diners included Canberra arts luminaries, athletes from the Australian Institute of Sport and two nervous students on a first date, all of whom lingered well into the night.
But behind the smiles in Mr Hollande's campaign headquarters yesterday, doubts still lingered.
And then, in a brief moment, Thatcher reached up to re-position a coil of hair and Jane pounced, capturing the fleeting doubt that lingered around the corners of the eyes.
I have lingered over spaghetti con ricci, spaghetti with sea urchins, vivid with a whole seabed of sea urchins' roes at Da Vittorio in Portopalo in Sicily (via Friuli Venezia Giulia 9, +092 578 381, davittorioristorante.com).com
Blume, who was a teenager in 1951 and 1952, when a series of passenger planes crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey, over a three-month period, said that the events had "lingered in my mind ever since".
The subject of the call has been forgotten, but the phrase lingered in the mind.
The tone for the day was set overnight, with manufacturing figures out of China confirming that the Chinese economy is cooling (if any doubt still lingered) as HSBC's figures are showing contraction for the third month in a row.
I concluded some time ago now that those who regard Australia Day as Invasion Day are right; the early governors such as Lachlan Macquarie viewed their conflict with the Aboriginal people as war and the terrible, orchestrated violence against our Indigenous people lingered well into the 20th century.
They lingered at peak rates for six quarters in the 1991-92 downturn, says Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics.
That sparked a furious popular backlash, prompting the exit of Syrian troops who had lingered, increasingly unwanted, to enforce peace after Lebanon's civil war of 1975-90.
Queries lingered over ballot-counting in King County, the most populous part of the state and a Democratic stronghold.Sitting in her spacious office in Washington state's neoclassical capitol building, Mrs Gregoire admits it wasn't the best way to get going.
