[West Ender]

I once heard a story that I liked about Gracie Fields and table ettiquette. She was just becoming well-known and was invited to a grand dinner with a lot of rather "superior" people. At table she was seated next to some Lord or other (I can't remember who) and when the soup course arrived she picked up her roll of bread and broke it into pieces which she dropped, one by one, into her soup and started to eat them from her spoon. All her fellow diners looked at her, aghast at this "faux pas", but Lord Whoever immediately picked up his roll and did exactly the same as she had done, dropping every little piece into his soup, and continued to chat to her while they both ate their soupy bread. That's what I call chivalry - and good manners.