A boy has lost his father. Well, not a boy really... Douglas Cardwell is a young man, out of college, and already experimenting with adult life and its potentialities. But when a boy or a man, no matter what their age loses his father, it is a grievous loss. The funeral is over, marking the death as utterly final, and Douglas and his mother are returning to the home tenanted by two instead of three people. At least in the natural course of things, it is tenanted only by two...