Up at the top of the house in the Barbour family home in Seacliff, San Francisco, is Paul's studio. It was originally the attic, but he transformed it into his living quarters, and then when he adopted Teddy, he enlarged the place to include the bedroom for her. There she stayed from the time she was a little girl until she became a woman and went away to Germany to become an army nurse. Now she's back home again, on leave, and she's engaged to be married. The years have been truly swift is the thought on Paul's mind before his reverie is broken by the telephone ringing...