Margaret wrote: > There have been dining companions -- even Southerners -- > upon whom I would have liked to have used the sharp edge. Temper, temper Margaret. The first mark of a gentlewoman is the ability to cloak hostility. (Except hostility to garden marauders such as snails, slugs, sowbugs, aphids, etc. For them, one is permitted to exclaim, "Off with their heads!") Pat