A good hostess can also engage the most awkward man in banter.

You've got to marry a rich woman, and if she's nice and will make a good hostess, so much the better for everybody.

Quite the type of girl, too, who will make a good political hostess, brains without being brainy, you know.

Maria thought it was cute how Isabel tried so hard to be a good hostess.

She was a good little hostess and a first-rate dancer.

"I don't have to be a good hostess with you."

A good hostess and he was glad she felt free to ask him for help.

Miss Waterford was a good hostess, and seeing my embarrassment came up to me.

He wanted my mother to stay because she was a good hostess and kept house well.

Like those of all good hostesses, her eyes were everywhere.