[00:01.120]--- Lesson 41 Do you call that a hat? [00:09.120]--- First listen and then answer the question. [00:14.960]--- What kind of shopping does the writer enjoy, do you think? [00:22.360]'Do you call that a hat?' I said to my wife.^“ [00:28.400]'You needn't be so rude about it,' my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mirror.^“ [00:36.000]I sat down on one of those modern chairs with holes in it and waited. [00:42.680]We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wife was still in front of the mirror. [00:51.320]'We mustn't buy things we don't need,' I remarked suddenly. I regretted saying it almost at once.^“ [01:01.080]'You needn't have said that,' my wife answered.^“ [01:05.360]'I needn't remind you of that terrible tie you bought yesterday.'^“ [01:12.680]'I find it beautiful,' I said. 'A man can never have too many ties.'^“ [01:20.120]'And a woman can't have too many hats,' she answered.^“ [01:25.920]Ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together.^10 [01:31.120]My wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse! [01:37.560]--- end