Man of the House

 Thanks, Laura. There is plenty of space in this for surmise...suffice to say the direct speech relates to the "she" ...(a collective of Mother, Sister, Grandmother)...and the "he" is of course the pater at his alcoholic worse....leaving the little-old narrator playing piggy-in-the middle...ah...the distant familial joys(?) of yesteryear!....Rgds., Alan.