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 and Brian are forced to share a cubicle with the irritating Norman Tucker.
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.