"Like the bug?" asks Aglet. "That's a lot more sensible than most bean names -- sorry, most human names. And, um...yes, if you don't mind."

This whole interaction is just surreal to him. Since when do beans react to seeing borrowers with polite introductions and immediate offers to put those borrowers back on the floor where they found them? On top of the handful of others he's met over the months, it's almost enough to make him think Aunt Euphony might have wrong about beans in general...but Aunt Euphony's never been wrong about anything else.

"You've seen borrowers before?" he asks, jumping to the obvious conclusion.