No, I thought, this was too much. She could find another audience for her outbursts. I turned on my heel and requested that she kindly remove the debris from my mother’s room and, if it wasn’t too much to ask, refrain from casting us in supporting rôles, or use our home as a theatre for these impossible episodes in her private life. I didn’t quite say it like this, I put it in terms she could understand. She understood.
