Mrs. Grace was forty. One day she said to her husband, ‘I weighed myself this morning. I weigh seventy kilos.’
‘Is that bad?’ answered Mr. Grace.
‘Yes, it is.’ Mrs. Grace said. ‘It’s very bad. Each week I’m heavier now. I’m going to eat less, and I’m going to have a walk every day.’
The next morning she put her coat on and began walking, but during her walk it rained, and the rain went through her coat.
That evening she said to her husband, ‘I want a good coat for my walks. I’m going to go to the shops tomorrow, and I’m going to buy one.
The next morning she went into a shop and looked at some coats with the salesgirl. She liked a seal coat very much.
‘This seal coat’s nice,’ she said to the salesgirl, ‘but does the rain come through it?’
The salesgirl smiled and answered, ‘Have you ever seen a seal with an umbrella?»
