"I was terrified," she remembers, joining our conversation with a solicitous air.
The club could not have been more solicitous and a day to remember was had by all.
Among other things, China is asserting some absurd territorial (and hence potential oil-drilling) claims in the South China Sea based on its control over a few reefs and rocks, several of which it grabbed from South Vietnam in the waning days of the Vietnam War when America was too sick and tired of the region (and too solicitous of its new China ties) to do anything about it.
She may be slow-moving, but she has been more effective than many with more obvious flair and charisma.At home she is cautious, sceptical of government's ability to change things, solicitous of allies and quick to cut down challengers.
He is solicitous towards her, knowing he needs her support, for example, against those pesky accusations of graft.
China is very unlikely for diplomatic reasons to provoke open conflict over those claims, but some Southeast Asian nations have been getting more solicitous of American naval ship visits lately, with a vague view to reminding China that there are still capable military forces present in the area who don't accept claims that contravene international maritime territorial law.
Libya has helped speed relief supplies to the region and now appears to have agreed to sponsor peace talks between the Darfur rebels and the Sudanese government.Fellow Arabs have also grown more solicitous for the welfare of Iraq.
The Clinton administration is solicitous of union views, not least because Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the House, uses any anti-union move to boost his presidential prospects at the expense of the vice-president's.And yet, despite all this, it is difficult to swallow Mr Carey's talk of a new era.
Britain's executives, it seems, are all too easily seduced by the smooth patter, tailored suits and solicitous manners of their brokers.
The Europeans, ever solicitous of their inefficient farmers, offered less liberalisation of agricultural trade than Mercosur hoped for.
After that, Mr Clarke shows, Kennedy was more solicitous towards his wife.
