Her estranged mother is also there, filling the room with endless unspoken memories about Lucy's deeply poor, troubled childhood.
Although it is not quite spelled out, Dr. Nuland clearly felt the link between breakdown and the darkness of memory unspoken.
But it gives as much resonance to what is unknown and unspoken – lost to memory – as it does to the engine of its own plot.
Instead, there will be old memories and, unspoken, bittersweet thoughts about what might have been for the Eton- and Oxford-educated television interviewer and barrister who lit up the politics of the Sixties like a film star turning up unannounced at a vicarage garden party.
In America, the restless, driven man of the land has become a buffoonish figure whose blustering Spanglish obscenities obscure the unspoken "parade of rattling ideas, memories, worries, regrets, schemes that tromped through his skull".
It seems we have an unspoken measure when judging atrocity: anything that evokes memories of the Holocaust enters an especially dark category.
Loosely autobiographical, they also hark back to the occupation, but at one remove, through the memory of a younger generation haunted by their parents' unspoken trauma.
The keyboard player Larry Goldings, who will be performing in the Thursday show, was part of that trio's early '90s band, and has vivid memories of what he describes as an uncanny level of unspoken communication among the three onstage.
His suppressed memory reveals not only the horrors of war, but also a burdensome, unspoken guilt.
