In the Barbour family home at 7:56 on this sunny January morning, Fanny Barbour is standing at the window in the library, gloomily sipping a second cup of coffee. Now that Clifford is working, days, nights and Sundays for the realty company, the house seems very lonely to Fanny after breakfast every morning. But now, Jack Barbour comes across from his own house across the hedge, and calls from the hallway.