The home front collapses: kicking the little girl out, too shaky to leave home

texture · ~20 Nov YDAU

• When: during Gately's fever crisis, late in the 12-20 Nov hospital window
• What: Pat stops coming to the hospital, and the House Manager explains why: Pat and Mr. M. have had to kick Pat's little girl out of the house for using something synthetic again, and Pat is in too shaky a place spiritually even to leave home. The refusal rehearsed on the speaker-phone in event 17 — no, promises don't matter, taking her back would just enable her — has been carried out at full domestic cost. The timeline ends on the split scene 182 named: the woman who commands everyone else's crisis, at last undone by the one her doctrine forbids her to fix.