“You could call them twins, yes, I s’pose you could, ” said Mrs. Ogg. “But I always thought that twins is two little souls born once, not one born twice.”

Susan waited. Mrs. Ogg looked in the mood to talk.

“So I said to the man, I said, ‘What now?’ and he said, ‘Is that any business of yours?’ and I said he could be damn sure it was my business and he could look me in the eye and I’d speak my mind to anyone. But I was thinking, you’re in trouble now, my girl, ’cos it’d all gone myffic.”

“Mythic?” said schoolteacher Susan.

“Yep. With extra myff. And you can get into big trouble, with myffic...”