Only Jeremy James obviously didn't how to use it, because Mummy told him to speak properly, even though he'd said 'Hmmph' perfectly properly. Daddy came out of the sitting room, with hisface as long as an elephant's nose.
'They lost,' said Daddy. 'Right at the end. An own goal.'
Then Daddy leaned on the kitchen doorpost as he always did when he'd been working (and sometimes when he was working), and watched Mummy working, presumably to make sure she was doing everything right. Jeremy James had tried leaning on the doorpost once and saying, as Daddy always ended up by saying, 'Will it be long, dear?' But instead of getting Mummy's normal 'Hmmph', he'd had a 'Now don't you start!' and been sent off to play with his train set, which he was sick of anyway.
