"If you had told me there were mushrooms in the market--" pursuedmadame, persisting in treating Jules as a reasonable being.

"Why did not madame ask me? If madame had asked me, surely I wouldhave told madame. Yesterday Caesar brought them to the door--a wholebucketful for twenty-five cents. I had to shut the door in his face toget rid of him," triumphantly.

"And you brought me yesterday those detestable peas!"