You're so wrapped up in this miserable local squabble with Simpkins about a salmon that you've lost all interest in the wider subjects which are occupying the attention of the world." "Come now, J.J.

Your baby--she's a very nice baby and all that.

But really--" "I won't talk about her any more if she bores you.

I thought, and hoped, that she might interest you.

That's the reason I started her as a topic of conversation.