Summary
A sun-drenched afternoon in a nameless American town becomes the chessboard for two women’s sly experiment in trust: Dorothy Devore’s ringed housewife, serenely convinced of her husband’s incorruptibility, and Helen Darling’s unshackled singleton, eyes sparkling with mischievous skepticism. Their wager: will the uxorious spouse stray if a perfumed lure dangles before him? Darling volunteers as temptress, arranging a rendezvous inside a mirrored café where every espresso cup reflects a moral question mark. Unbeknownst to her, the husband dispatches his best friend—Eddie Baker’s rubber-limbed bachelor—as proxy, setting off a Rube-Goldberg of misread glances, swapped letters, and slamming doors. Soon the wife intercepts a lipstick-smeared note, the bachelor mistakes Darling’s ardor for sincerity, and James Harrison’s hapless spouse finds himself exiled to the sofa, then to the doghouse, then perilously close to the courthouse. The film pirouettes through misunderstandings that bloom like paper flowers in water—each revelation larger, more vibrant, until the entire cast pirouettes into a final reel where partners realign, innocence is restored, and the single cynics discover their own capacity for belief. The comedy is a kaleidoscope of marital anxiety, a frothy but razor-sharp reminder that love’s scaffolding is built not on vows but on the stories we choose to swallow.
Synopsis
Introduced first are two women friends, one married and one single. The latter scorns the former's complete faith in her husband, and the two hatch a plan to test him. The single friend makes a date to meet him in a café. Unknown to her he sends a friend and the fun is on. Misunderstandings come, of course, the married folks getting deep into difficulties with the wife's belief that her husband did fall victim to another's charms, and the trouble tangles until all is cleared and the single folks brought into each other's arms and happiness restored to the married ones.
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