Millie, Edgar and the lecherous doctor

All through the film, when Millie is being her normal artificial self, no one except Pinky notices that she exists. When she loses it and shrieks at Pinky, the next thing you know, Edgar comes home with her. After the accident, when she's crying at the hospital, a handsome doctor comes up, touches her face, tries to buy her breakfast.... frankly does everything but stick his hand up her skirt. It seems as if she can only exist in the real world on the rare occasions when she slips up and allows herself to have real experiences and emotions. Her carefully-crafted, yellow-and-white, pigs-in-a-blanket persona functions like an invisibility cloak.