Sweet Sorrow

Here is an affecting little tableau, set in a quiet suburban street on a sunny Friday morning in July.

An automobile is parked in front of a house. The driver is a woman of about forty. There are four children in the car with her, her own children, three girls and a boy, their ages ranging from four to fourteen. The woman and the three girl children are all weeping. The boy, aged eleven, is playing the man very bravely, but with an obvious effort.