It is after dinner now in Seacliff, San Francisco, and in the library of the Barbour family home, Henry - the head of the house of Barbour - is pretending to read the evening paper. However, if you watched closely, you'd discover that he constantly peers around the edge, darting quick, guilty looks at his wife. He has detected a certain restraint in Fanny's manner, and he's not quite sure what he has done to bring this on...