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'Do you call that a hat ?' I said to my
wife.
'You needn't be so rude about it,' my
wife answered as she looked at herself in
the mirror.
I sat down on one of those modern
chairs with holes in it and waited. We had
been in the hat shop for half an hour and
my wife was still in front of the mirror.
' We mustn't buy things we don't need,'
I remarked suddenly. I regretted saying
it almost at once.
'You needn't have said that,' my wife
answered.' I need not remind you of that
terrible tie you bought yesterday.'
' I find it beautiful,' I said. 'A man can
never have too many ties.'
'And a woman can't have too many hats,' she answered.
Ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together. My wife was wearing
a hat that looked like a lighthouse !