The tickets are already bought, why waste the money? I’ll go alone, and in the meantime you can go to my mother’s village and help her with the chores.

The woman didn’t know what to say. She was six months pregnant, her back hurt with the slightest bend, but she didn’t dare argue.

The husband went on holiday, and she was sent to the mother-in-law – to a village where the toilet was behind the shed, the water was only cold, and the only “rest” was working in the garden beds.