It's afternoon at the sky ranch, and out on the new side porch which projects out over a canyon and looks squarely up to the Redwood Mountains, Paul is frowning over a new book, and Clifford is standing at the rail, staring moodily out into the warm afternoon vista. He is thinking a lot about Roberta, and he feels like he should ask her to marry him, but there's so many things about marriage which result in nothing but calamity, so he has many doubts...