A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.
Stumbling into the squalor of her miserable tenement room the woman, a wretched victim of drink and dissipation, sinks down at the table and lights the half-burned candle.
