Moonlight pouring through her bedroom window at the sky ranch, has awakened Hazel, and slipping into her robe, she tiptoes downstairs and out onto the patio, to be greeted by the fragrance of burning charcoal, and a shadowy figure. Father Barbour and Paul have been out there talking, with Father having a touch of insomnia these days, and now Penny is arriving in the car from a meeting at the university.