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_Now we're back at the Frosts' house, and it's a week after the events narrated in Act I. It is about nine o'clock in the morning, and through the open windows the sun is shining in great, brave squares upon the carpet. The jars, the glasses, the phials of a certain memorable night have been removed, but there is an air about the house quite inconsistent with the happy day outside, an air of catastrophe, a profound gloom that seems to have settled even upon the "Library of Wit and Humor" in the dingy bookcase._
_There is brooding going on upon the premises._