"Are you?"
"I am; that's a fact. You know I spoke to you about going into the book business."
"Not lately."
"But I have been thinking about it all the time."
"What do your father and mother say?"
"O, they are all right."
"Have you asked them?"
"Certainly I have; they are willing I should go with you."
"Why didn't you speak of it then?"
"I thought I wouldn't say anything till the time came. You know you fought shy when I spoke about it before."