"Why not?"
"Because those who come to see us bring no books with them."
"Then don't you get any newspaper?"
"Oh, yes, the Journal des Demoiselles; but it's a frightful bore."
"A Hungarian paper would be better, the Pesti Divatlap, for instance."
"I'll tell my mother to order it. You write for it sometimes, don't you?"
"Yes."
"What?"
"The description of a desert island among the sedges."