For fifty years Mr Christopherson has been with the firm of Bratt & Son, and has risen to the position of Chief Clerk. Now he is being retired to make room for Mr Bratt's son, and today is his last day at the office. He is still single although many years before he had thought of asking Miss Richardson, who was then his secretary, to marry him. He explains to Jenny, his present secretary, that he did not do so because he was so engrossed in the growing business that he had more need of Miss Richardson as a secretary than a wife. The business grew, and Miss Richardson, who is still with the firm, became a Cashier. Jenny believes that even now admits that once she would have accepted him, but as he had not then asked her she had resigned herself to remaining single. She had been perfectly content, and it is now too late for her to change her way of living. Chris must depart to his own life of lonely retirement.