#22 – expensive

“Magnus. This hobby of yours is becoming expensive.”

“Is that censure I detect, Mother?”

“Don’t be impudent, Magnus. It’s unseemly for a man your age.”

“My apologies, Mother. If we’re not to bicker, then, shall we discuss something innocuous? The aftermath of Brexit, perhaps?”

“I’ll not be distracted by your attempts to be deliberately quarrelsome. I intend to have you cease and desist with this madness.”

“Madness?”

“Dissembling does not become you either. I am fully aware that you have been...