"There's nobody in there with you. You're not working," he said loudly
"Working can be thinking. It isn't always—" She stopped herself. She was about ready to say, "It isn't always fucking."
"Mouse went to the bathroom in that fern thing and now there is shitty dirt everywhere."
"Good God. Go clean it up."
"I don't know how."
"You know how to use a broom and a dustbin. Can't you sweep it into the dustbin? You remember how!"
"It smells so really badly. If I go near it I'm gonna puke."
"I changed your diapers. It can't be worse than that. Plug your nose and try to do a little. I'm tired of being the maid around here."
"I'm not a maid too."
"It's your cat."