‘What? What! What?!’ said my husband with a provoking profligacy of punctuation.
‘What?’ I said before I could stop myself.
‘Buttonhole,’ he said. ‘You say here it’s nothing to do with a hole. But it is. Look. I put my poppy in it.’
‘No dear, the verb.
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