Fannie Flagg. Fried green tomatoes in cafe "Substation" (№ 169092)

They knew that their relatives are in the next room - cold, devoid of sunlight and await death.
And they sit here, quite strangers to each other people in a tiny confined space, forced to be on view in the most intimate, the most painful moment of his life. Don't know what to say, how to behave. Any rules of etiquette here is not acting.