(scene opens in the dining room, noises coming from kitchen)
Me: Gamma, what are you doing in there?
Gamma: Washing the dishes of course.
Me: (looks pointedly at Beta) That’s very nice of you, Gamma.
Beta: (slinks behind his book)
Gamma: I’m doing the dishes so you don’t have too! Your cup is clean now!
Beta: (slinks deeper)
Me: That was so nice of you, Gamma, (glare intensifies) especially since you did it without asking.
Beta: (lays under the table to do reading homework)