RomeoMike wrote:
Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-)

Blanche wrote:

I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*

My bad. Oddly enough, the examples in the book show the period inside
the quotes, yet the only explanation relates to the use of a comma.
I think I need to get a new copy, too. Mine is dated 1979.