The Dinner Party is a fictional short story written by Mona Gardner. In India, a colonial officer and his wife host a dinner party and invite army officers and government attaches along with their wives, and an American naturalist.
The plot of The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner is there is a cobra in the dinner room, which no one is aware of. So, the American must find a way to keep all of the guests calm and still so that the cobra does not harm/bite any of them, while also trying to lead the cobra away into a bowl of milk outside on the veranda.
