"I met Clive at a dinner I hosted for my boss," Rajna says in a refined Eastern European drawl. "He was like a fish out of water and I was concerned, so I got talking with him.

So see to it that you are a gentle tiger cub.

After an hour of waiting, interrupted by periodic frowning examinations of our press credentials, we were ushered into an elegant conference room.

You'd better open the door, you--"he answered, addressing me by some elegant term that I don't care to repeat.

She's so refined that she always eats cake with a little fork.