Mrs. Conclusion : Hullo, Mrs. Premise
Mrs. Premise : Hullo, Mrs. Conclusion.
Conclusion: Busy Day?
Premise: Busy? I just spent four hours burying the cat.
Conclusion: *Four hours* to bury a cat?
Premise: Yes – it wouldn’t keep still.
Conclusion: Oh – it wasn’t dead, then?
Premise: No, no – but it’s not at all well, so as we were going away for a fortnight’s holiday we thought it better to bury it just to be on the safe side.
Conclusion: Quite right – you don’t want to come back from Sorrento to a dead cat. It’d be so anticlimactic.
La pobre Agripina ya no está con nosotros. Lo mínimo que podíamos hacer es darle cristiana sepultura, por más que no fuese exactamente nuestra gata.
Cavar tumbas de gato es muy cansado.