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“Come in! How is the house hunting coming along? Has your cousin found anything?”

“It’s proving to be rather difficult. I took her to fifteen different places, and she had a problem with every one of them.”

“She must be very hard to please. Why didn’t she like the flat in the building next to yours?”

“Not enough rooms, she said. She’ll be mostly working from home. So, she needs a separate room for the office.”

“The bedroom is huge. It can easily double as an office.”

“Double as an office? What do you mean?”

“When you say that the bedroom can double as an office, what you’re suggesting is that it can be used both as a bedroom and an office.”