In the Barbour family, as a rule it takes several days for news to move along the family grapevine until it reaches the children, but a shocking event like Teddy's decision to leave Elwood, travels like fire along a fuse. It has come now to Jack's six little girls, a rumor half understood. It's afternoon now, and Henry Barbour finds one of Jack's daughters sitting in his big chair by the fire, thumbing idly through an old family album...