Balstrode struggles in out of the storm. Later, Bob Boles comes in with the fishermen. Every time the door is opened, the storm blows in. Two fishermen struggle in. One tells of a landslide further up the coast.
Boles is drunk.
The chorus take up the theme. Ned Keene bursts through the door. He says the cliff by Grimes's hut has slid into the sea, and Balstrode tells him that the road is flooded. Hobson will be late - late with Mrs Sedley's dope, late with Grimes's apprentice. The door opens again, and as the storm blows into the pub, Grimes come in.