How To Get Along

WHEN BOTH ARE STRANGERS
Let us say the young Lakes from Chicago are about to move to Strangetown, where John Lake will manage the new branch office his firm has just opened. Business is the usual reason for moving to a new community. John will, of course, meet a few people through business. If the town is small and characteristically friendly, Mary will probably get to know her neighbours quickly. The Lakes will become members of the church and, by participating in a variety of church and community activities, gradually enlarge their acquaintance.

Emily Post, Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 10th Edition, 1960, p. 272.