It's late afternoon as we enter the small house, halfway up the next block. In the living room we find Mrs Victor Gook, and young Mr Rush Gook. Sade quietly darns socks near the window, while her son who arrived home only a moment ago, returns from the hallway where he has deposited his hat and overcoat. Rush has decided that he is getting on a bit, and that he doesn't have the endurance that he used to have...