"I don't understand why you feel the need to work" Viviana grumbled at me.

"Isn't it better than sitting idle?"

"I understand you don't want to be idle but scrubbing the floors?"

"Do you have a better job for me"

"Sitting around pretty all day. It's not like you get paid for this"

"I still want to do it. How is it going with the children?"

"Alfio's cure seems to be working. He's not such a ...