Where was Mrs. Pemulis all this time, late at night, with dear old Da P. shaking Matty ‘awake’ until his teeth rattled and little Micky curled up against the far wall, shell-breathing, silent as death, is what I’d want to know.
Another muddying-the-waters footnote to complicate the question of who's narrating: who is the I in "what I'd want to know."