'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 needn't 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!&