Kokor went to Sevet's favorite hideaway, where she took her lovers to keep them from Vas's knowledge, and Sevet wasn't there.

WIDELY known as a favorite hideaway of the rich and famous, Westport has a celebrity-driven cachet.

In its heyday this hotel was a favorite hideaway for the Beatles.

After the Titanic, my favorite virtual hideaway is the women's smoking room of the historic Paramount Theatre in Oakland, Calif.

Van Beirendonck's cheerful uniforms can be seen on the gardeners at his favorite hideaway: the botanical gardens on Leopoldstraat.

I suggest, going with Lapidus's favorite hideaway.

Then there is Wendy Wasserstein's Secret New York (http://newyork.digitalcity.com/features/ wendy), where Ms. Wasserstein, the playwright, details her favorite hideaways.

For a while Butch and Elza holed up at Robbers Roost, another favorite hideaway of the Wild Bunch.

It was, all in all, a peaceful lunch, filled with good food, thirst-quenching beer, and conversation that stuck to the more general, less personal topic of travels, foreign ports, and favorite hideaways.

We confided to each other our favorite private hideaways in New York, where we can go and not see anyone we're friends with.