Alison's denial was so forceful it attracted the attention of a couple at a neighbouring table.

Hutton's man - now Cafferty's, if he hadn't been all along - was reading a paper at a neighbouring table.

A group of men and girls from a neighbouring table passed on their way to the door.

But now he was looking at the open face of the astrogator-apprentice from the neighbouring table.

He rose, and restored his chair to its place at the neighbouring table.

But Evans merely grinned and helped himself to a stool from under a neighbouring table.

Sir Thomas flinched, and turned his chair even more deliberately away from the neighbouring table.

At the neighbouring table sit a slightly hippyish pair with American accents.

I heard a spoon drop at a neighbouring table.

"That's my niece, you know," Maisie explained to the neighbouring table.