‘A man of my status should not stand before you with a begging bowl for food, Ammalu. You are not giving me charity, but performing the duty of a wife’
‘Today, lunch is delayed by just five minutes; you make such a hulla-gulla! Had I not gone to Ammin’s house, I would have finished cooking much earlier’
‘You went to help Ammini? What happened to that poor girl. You would have stayed there for the whole day’
‘That poor girl said some nonsense about you. So, I went and gave her a kick at her lower back. If she doesn’t get up by tomorrow, you can go and lift her up’