The Doctor's Wife Chapter 2

In which Mr. Sigismund Smith, a prolific yet mild-mannered author of sensational penny serials, invites his old schoolfriend George Gilbert to visit his somewhat dilapidated and disorderly home with the Sleaford family at Camberwell. Their walk through the less-frequented lanes reveals a household brimming with boisterous boys and domestic disorder, setting a quietly curious scene of contrasts between literary imagination and everyday realities.