- Frank wakes up from a nightmare in his room and remembers he's been fired.
- Tessie, who's just discovered she's pregnant, can only wonder at his shout.
- Lying in bed, Frank believes he smells of garbage for what he's done.
- His thoughts are killing him.
- Overwhelmed with guilt, he wants Helen to forgive him.
- But he doesn't expect her to take him back.
- He plans to kill himself.
- An insight terrifies him: that he's really a man of stern morality, even though he acts as though he isn't.