41 Do You Call That a Hat

Do you call that a hat?

‘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 musn't buy things we don't need, ’ I remarked suddenly.