"Yes?" I replied, only half hearing.
"You have seen it, then?"
"No"—still absorbed in my reading.
"What is it you are so interested in?" she inquired, laying down the new magazine.
"A seed catalogue."
"More seed catalogues! Why, you read nothing else last night."
"But this is a new one," I replied, "and I declare I never saw turnips that could touch this improved strain here. I am going to plant a lot of them this year."
"How many seed catalogues have you had this spring?"
"Only six, so far."
"And you plant your earliest seeds—"