"There are so many things."
"What things?"
"She could not say. All sorts of things. Getting up, dressing, thinking of dinner, cooking dinner, eating dinner, thinking of supper, cleaning her room…. And then the day was over…. And besides you must have a little time for doing nothing!"
"And you are not bored?"
"Never."
"Even when you are doing nothing?"
"Especially when I am doing nothing. It is much worse doing something: that bores me."
They looked at each other and laughed.
"You are very happy!" said Christophe. "I can't do nothing."
"It seems to me that you know how."