Poor Tony chased up Prospect — "Poor Tony’s father used to come…"
Poor Tony’s father used to come home to 412 Mount Auburn Street Watertown at the completion of a long day of cesareans and sit in a chair in the darkening kitchen, scratching at his head where his mask’s green strings had dug into the head.
Context
A masked parent remembered at the exact moment van Cleve's fingers reach the wig Tony holds clamped to his head: a career of deliveries, and a face marked by its own concealment. (The odd "the head" for "his head" preserved as written.)