Audience might be a strong word; Alfred had been only kind of paying attention to the explanation of pumpkins as he sorted through a collection of spice and herbs, carefully checking the contents of each jar for freshness. The lull in the other's monologue caught the goblin's notice, though, and he looked up, a rather nonplussed look on his face. "So are you hopin' you can lecture the gourds into cutting themselves up, or...?"