VI. SINGLE LIFE

Scene, a tolerably well-furnished but untidy sitting-room, with numerous
traces of bachelor occupation, such as crossed foils on the wall, a
set of boxing-gloves under a side table, boots, hats and walking-sticks
lying about in various directions. On one corner of the table some one
has apparently breakfasted in rather higgledy-piggledy fashion. Near
the table sits a young man, with a short pipe in his mouth and one
foot bare, while he is endeavoring to darn an extremely dilapidated
sock.

VII. THE SAILOR'S FAREWELL

Scene, a cottage home. A young man, in sailor costume and with a bundle
on his shoulder, stands with his right hand on the latch of the door,
right center, but looking back with a sorrowful expression at his
wife--personated by a young lady in short black or blue skirt, red or
white blouse, and white mob-cap--who sits with her apron up to her
eyes in an apparent agony of grief. Three children are present, the
two elder crying for sympathy, the youngest sitting in a crib or cradle
and amusing himself with some toy, in apparent unconsciousness of his
father's approaching departure. Soft blue light from left. Music, "The
Minstrel Boy."

VIII. HOME AGAIN.

The same scene. Children a couple of years older. (This may be effected
by suppressing the youngest and introducing a fresh eldest, as much
like the others as possible.) The sailor of the last scene, slightly
more tanned, and with a fuller "made-up" beard, has apparently just