Jekyll Confesses: The Birth of Hyde

1 Seen from high above in the small hours, the respectable house on the sleeping square is dark.

2 Jekyll sits alone by his cabinet fire, his face half lit by the coals, half in darkness

3 Henry Jekyll lifts the still-smoking draught and stops it an inch from his lips

4 Alone in the lamplit cabinet, the newly born Hyde flings out his arms in delight

5 Before dawn at the pier glass, Hyde sees his new face for the first time and is glad

6 Restored to his own shape, Henry Jekyll sits by the dying fire as cold dawn comes in

7 Jekyll sits by the red grate at midnight, hand over his mouth, horrified by Hyde's deeds

8 At three on a winter morning, Hyde stands with his back against the laboratory door

9 Late at night under the lamp, Jekyll signs Hyde's name in a backward-sloping hand