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65. The Dress
2013-09-06
One day Mrs Jones went shopping. When her husband came home in the evening, she began to tell him about a beautiful cotton dress. `I saw it in a shop this morning,` she said, `and… `
`And you want to buy it,` said her husband. `How much does it cost?`
`Fifteen pounds.`
`Fifteen pounds for a cotton dress? That is too much!`
But every evening, when Mr Jones came back from work, his wife continued to speak only about the dress, and at last, after a week, he said, `Oh, buy the dress! Here is the money!`
She was very happy.
But the next evening, when Mr Jones came home and asked, `Have you got the famous dress?` she said, `No.`
`Why not?` he said.
`Well, it was still in the window of the shop after a week so I thought, "Nobody else wants this dress, so I don`t want it either".`
