My good lady has gone out for a couple of hours, practicing with her trainer for some long distance ocean swim she is planning to do sometime in the future.

(She cannot actually swim yet - so she and her trainer simply put on and take off that grease stuff ocean swimmers have to cover themselves with.   He tells me that this is what all trainers do at this stage of the learning process.   I trust him, because he is a professional).

Anyway, within 30 minutes of her departure, I have noticed a pound package of butter is lying on the kitchen work surface, and I don't know how it got there.

My dilemma is, if she put it out on purpose and I go and put it back into the fridge, I am in dead lumber.   On the other hand, if it is out by accident, and I don't put it back in the fridge, I am in equal dead lumber.

And the agonizing thing is, whichever is the right thing to do, she will produce one of them irrefutable feminine arguments to show how obvious it all should have been to anyone who can think straight.

So - help, please.

(And could you be sharpish with it?   Thanks).