A wife surprises her husband by showing him evidence of his gambling debts, and reveals that she has covered his debts by betting against him. Stipple engraving by J. Strutt after T. Stothard.

Their children are shown in the background. An impression with Grosvenor Prints has full lettering in English and French, with English lettering as follows: "A lady fearing her husband's propensity to gaming would ruin his family, contrived by one of her relations to win his whole fortune; and when he was full of horror at the supposed situation to which he had reduced them, she produces the bond and acknowledges the stratagem.". That impression is accompanied by a pair in the same format, "The power of innocence"