Someone wrote words to the effect of, “I was expecting Martha to drown herself in the fountain while Chris and Alice were reading the email” ( the one from social services letting them off the hook).
I’m always confused by what is and isn’t irony, but would that have been ironic?
It would solve the problem of whether Martha will ever show any signs of FAS.
But no, they’ll never do it. Good thing, coz if they did, it would be mawkish in the extreme. Didn’t we all suffer enough with Kirsty’s and Ruth’s miscarriages?