HISTORIAN

Lady antonia Fraser, the widow of playwright Harold Pinter, has passed on this wise insight to the oldie: ‘all the best friendships happen when sex is out of the question. this can be for any number of reasons.’ alas, she does not specify any particular reason. to think Lady antonia, 84, once used to swat away undesirable suitors with the putdown: ‘i only bat with the first Xi.’