[wind blowing]

[shuddering]

[vehicle approaching]

[grunting]

[panting]

[tires screech]

Yes, yes, I see you. Get in. Get in.

Your mother is having another one of her episodes. Last night, she went to see A Doll’s House
with a couple girlfriends, and now she has ideas. I emerged from my sanctum this afternoon to
discover that not only had she not made me lunch, which is a meal I need in order to live, but
she’d, furthermore, locked herself in the bedroom to weep. Loudly.