What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: Rosebud was stored with the contents of Kane’s mother’s boarding house, so she must have kept all his stuff for the rest of her life. Kane was on his way to sort through it the night he met Susan – even assuming he’d spent several years working up the nerve to revisit his childhood memories, that implies Mrs. Kane had been alive well into her son’s adulthood, but had never attempted contact. Was she still trying to protect him from his father? Did she fear rejection? Orson you magnificent bastard was this movie really about her the whole time?