During questioning, he asserts to the juvenile officer: "Nobody can help me."The housemaid answers all questions directed toward Plato, and explains how his mother habitually deserts him and his father left the family long ago:It seems like she""s always going away somewhere.The day""s headline in the city""sZenith Times-Advocatestates that his company was sold to Union Motors: "Dodsworth Motors Sold to U.He somersault-flipped himself into a sports car, emblazoned with the British flag, driven by Emma Peel-like Mrs.Alone, our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.The Wienie King points to a bird embroidered on her wrap-around robe: "I love birds." He guesses that if she""s he penniless tenant, she "must be broke." The elderly gentleman sympathetically and grimly remembers his own impoverished youth and his passing years, quickly ready to offer charitable support: "I was broke too when I was about your age, but I didn""t have a figure like you""ve got.The two-page handwritten letter, beginning with "Dear Clarice," was from Lecter, expressing how he had followed her "disgrace and public shaming," and knew that her previous success in capturing Jamie Gumb was now overshadowed by her killing of five during the FBI shootout ("Do you imagine your Daddy being shamed by your disgrace?", he asked mockingly about her humiliation) - "the sorry, petty end of a promising career.