Mr William Herbert 'Pinky' Murray is walking confidently along Seacliff Drive, San Francisco, toward the Barbour family home, where his grandfather is angrily pacing the floor in the library. The head of the house of Barbour is not in a tranquil mood, as he brandishes a letter under his wife's nose. Pinky isn't aware of the letter, and he's about to confront him with it.