Roy Osborne is admitted to a TB sanatorium in Surrey. His roommate is fellow Londoner Brian Clapton. Roy begins to realise just how bleak his future is.

As a terrible winter takes hold, the patients are told to keep their windows open.

Roy's mother tries to lure him away from Mrs Howell.

Dr Ruggles allows Brian and Tucker to attend a whist drive, but Roy is only well enough to spectate.

Bernard Walpole is so in love with Ivy Osborne that he plans to get rid of his wife.