Home at Six
by Lee Falk

THE STORY: The family, wife, son, daughter, grandmother and maid, are startled by Dad's sudden arrival at four, as he never comes home before six.

Dad acts as if all is as it should be, but subsequent revelations make it clear that such is not the case: The daughter admits to being an arsonist; the son guzzles beer because it keeps him off Scotch; grandmother is hooked on drugs; the maid is caught red-handed in her thievery; and Dad's best friend emerges blushing from his wife's bedroom closet.

Dad is at his wit's end when, mercifully, six o'clock arrives—and all falls miraculously into proper place, just as it should be and would have been if he had come home at the right time to begin with.