Hopkins persuades me that Masud Khan was fascinating at a dinner party (unless there was too much wine), interesting as a thinker, given to the occasional brilliant intuitive flash, handsome as the devil and twice as charming.
I wasn't aggressively pursuing her and got the chance to observe her, and the more I observed her the more I thought, 'This is a fascinating person.' " After dinner is when Mr. McQueen made his move.
In Antonia Fraser's book, Must You Go?, detailing her life with Harold Pinter, there is a fascinating account of a dinner party in 1976 with Miriam and Tom Stoppard.
"I used to go and stay in Paris with him, and I would sleep in his dressing room, and he would treat one like a complete adult — there would be these fascinating conversations around the dinner table about books, politics, art, whatever," she said.
Dessert in a glass might be advisable, because Perla has a fascinating selection of after-dinner drinks, including otherworldly Austrian eaux-de-vie from Hans Reisetbauer.
Over dinner she was fascinating but gave very little away, so now that I think about it, it was essentially all me talking about the different rodent protections we had at the store, and how we were rereading Tess of the d'Urbervilles in our literature class, per my yearly request.
