在一次晚餐派对上，我坐在Mrs. Rumbold旁边，她是一位穿着紧身黑色礼服、不苟言笑的大女士。尽管尝试了多次交流，她的回答总是简单而直接，只有一句话：‘No’。最终，我问她是否享受晚餐，她给出了一个意味深长的建议：‘年轻先生，如果你多吃一点，少说一点，我们就能更好地享受晚餐了。’本文讲述了这次独特的餐桌对话经历。
Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold.
Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress.
She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her.
Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating.
I tried to make conversation.
'A new play is coming to "The Globe" soon,' I said. 'Will you be seeing it?'
'No,' she answered.
‘Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year?' I asked.
'No,' she answered.
'Will you be staying in England?' I asked.
'No,' she answered.
I despair, I ask her whether she was enjoying her dinner.
'Young man,' she answered, 'if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner.
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