Timoney and Allison in “Wednesday's Child”

Listen, hon. I just found these in the bathroom. [shakes bottle of pills]

So what? That doesn't mean anything.

Hey, here's a little something: Ray Milland, from that movie The Lost Weekend, he used to hide his in a lamp. Most people wouldn't think about looking there, but my mom used to hide hers in the same spot.

Well, they don't mean anything, so --

That was her favorite movie. You probably never saw it. Well, it meant something in my house. It meant we don't make noise in the morning so we didn't wake up our mother, who might have been drunk from the night before. My mom, by the way, one night years ago, stinking drunk, she drives out in a storm, veers into traffic, she gets thrown from the car and dies on the spot. My sister Una was four, so she doesn't remember a thing, but I was thirteen so I remember everything, and I've got to tell you, part of me is really glad it happened that way.

Well that's a horrible thing to say.

Why? Do you feel sorry for her? Why is that, I wonder?