This chapter's epigraph comes from the play's opening lines, "Work with perseverance, do you kn? Work with our perseverance" . In other words, work with perseverance allows you to tell your boss what you want to hear. In this case, it's the boss's job to convince her to tell him what she wants to hear: that her boyfriend borrowed a bunch of money from the loan sharks. The boss is all, "wait, what did I just say?! His alzheimer's getting worse!" . She tells her sister that if she doesn't pay back the money within a week, she'll have her brains "removed" , and she tells her that she's going to have to sign a document giving her son two years to prove that he's ready to inherit the villa. This is the only way he'll ever be able to claim the inheritance, she says.