Unexpectedly, the young civil-rights lawyer with whom there had been a sensed mutual attraction, taken no further than dinner and a cinema date, also offered himself perhaps a move toward the love affair that was coming anyway.

NEWYORKER: A Beneficiary

No one had told me I could not go out for dinner.

NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

The landlord of a pub where Stone sometimes drinks wanted to remain anonymous but said the singer made "no fuss" when she once had to be turned away having failed to book a table for dinner.

BBC: Devon offers pride and protection for soul singer Stone