love reading!

 (listing stores; decorating the house; making toasts; telling jokes in the dialect of a rich person from the Northeast; hosting gala banquets; talking about social advantages with racist good humor; convincing through appearances; affecting the manners of a strong personality, especially with servants; behaving like a middle-class antelope like a self-help expert, her intimacy with the divine light translated into money, finances and magical healing powers)

Don't you work, Roberta? 

Roberta

(from celery to mushroom steak, to nuts on veal, embarrassed by the appearance of a uniformed waiter with a platter of freshly made octopus moqueca)

I teach Literature at UFRJ.

HENRICICA

(now thinking circumspectly about prosperity and social success --- a new car in the pipeline, next month: causing a sensation at receptions at expensive parties and restaurants, where we expect classy friends)

I love reading! I'm reading Grande Sertão: Veredas, by Guimarães Rosa.

Roberta

(a little skeptical, a simple lesson in understandable language)

Great! It's a beautiful book.