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Scene II. — Off to work. Shows the interior of bedroom, wife in bed ; husband comes in with a cup of tea for the missus whom lie wakes ; he draws up the blind and calls her attention to the fine morning — the sun streaming in at the window. He finishes dressing, shoulders his tool bag, and departs for his day's work.
Scene III. — The accident. The old man is seen at work on a building in course of erection; goes up ladder with pail on his shoulder, slips, drops the pail and falls to the ground. His fellow workmen hasten to his assistance, and are seen to be putting his leg in rough splints and giving him what aid they can. One is sent for a doctor.
Scene IV. — What makes him so late? Shows the cottage interior again, the table spread for tea, which the wife is preparing, now and then looking at the clock. While so engaged, a boy rushes in to tell her of the accident, and almost immediately after he is brought in on a stretcher. The old man is deposited on a couch ; his wife doing her best to comfort him. The doctor now enters, and, deciding that it is a case requiring immediate attention, he takes off his coat and proceeds to set the broken limb.
Si eve V. — Six weeks after: the wolf at the door. The old couple have hitherto been able to support themselves comfortably, now we find the old lady in this picture anxiouslv considering how the next lot of medicine is to be paid for, and whether the old man will not have to give up his tobacco. What about the pawnbroker ?
The old man is very quiet : she looks in and finds him asleep. She slips on her bonnet and shawl, makes the old man's pillow comfortable, picks up a garment — her best Sunday frock evidently — puts it under her shawl and goes out.
Scene VI. Exterior of pawnbrokers Old lady comes along, but passes the door ; after going a little way, she looks round, pretends to look in the window, and then slips in the doorway.
Scene VII. Brings us back to the cottage interior again, where we find the old man rousing up and reaching up to the mantelpiece for his pipe, and he is just bemoaning the fact that he has no tobacco when the old lady enters, evidently very well pleased with her journey.
She produces first a paper of tobacco for the old man, who soon puts it into use; shows a fresh bottle of medicine and several other little necessaries which she had been able to purchase, and we leave them in a hopeful mood.
Our last scene, however, commences very badly. "Distraint for Rent, the man in possession." They have struggled on for six weeks more, hoping daily to get a remittance from Jack. This very morning they have had a letter, delayed in post, saying that he will be home shortly : and when the bailiff arrives the letter is shown him. and he is asked to "wait till Jack comes home."
The man, however, is obdurate, and proceeds with the help of the man in possession to seize the few effects which are left them. He has left them one chair and the couch upon which the still almost helpless man is sitting, when he catches sight of Jack's picture. He orders the man to take it down,