If Josephine has anything to say about Avery's rambling, she does not put voice to the thought; she finds it endearing, actually, but she is not sure that the woman will take that as a compliment, so instead, she smiles to herself more than anyone else and begins to busy herself with the deflowering (de-floreting?) of the vegetables. She makes reasonably quick work of them for someone who hasn't spent much time in a kitchen before, and she sets the knife down briefly to ask, "How do I tell what parts of the stem need removing?"