Teddy's separation from Elwood gradually is involving all the members of the Barbour clan. It's late afternoon now, and six o'clock straight down from the family home in Seacliff, San Francisco, Claudia Barbour-Lacey has telephoned Paul that she is coming over to see him. A few minutes later, she makes her way up the last flight of stairs, before pausing a moment to catch her breathe and then knocks. She wants to talk to Paul about Teddy's desperate frame of mind...