Dad shouldn’t have done that but you know how he gets — the assault is a weather condition.

Can you apologise to Mom for the shouting — there is one person in this who owes an apology, and it is you.

Please don’t do anything you can’t undo — the damage will be caused by your response, not by the thing itself.

Not one word about her head.

Not one word about the balcony.

Not one word asking whether his daughter was hurt, or where she was, or what the doctor had said.