This chart divides the dinner into its various courses, and under
each course is given what I call an “opening sentence,” together
with your partner’s probable reply and the topic which is then
introduced for discussion. And, most valuable of all, under each
such topic I have listed certain helpful facts which will enable
you to prolong the conversation along those lines until the
arrival of the next course, and the consequent opening of another
field for discussion. The chart follows: