Summary
A counter girl in a bargain basement, Janet Randall, spends her days folding silk between dreams of chandeliers; one summer she trades her lunch pail for a suitcase and checks into a gilded resort where champagne is cheaper than tap water. Monte Moreville—playboy, matinee idol, human credit line—hovers at the bar like a dragon over coins; Janet worships him, yet the bill at checkout is a guillotine. In lieu of cash he demands a ruse: play wife, deflect a lawsuit, parade among the idle rich whose laughter rings hollow as tin bells. Four nights of borrowed pearls and foxtrot etiquette strip her illusions; when the masquerade collapses, Janet crawls back to Dan Cassidy, the patient clerk who smells of warehouse dust and sincerity, clutching nothing but a new contempt for velvet ropes and a bruised gratitude for linoleum.
Synopsis
Janet Randall, a department store clerk who longs for a fling at high society, ignores the love of the poor but honest Dan Cassidy. When vacation time comes, Janet goes to a fashionable hotel and there meets her idol, society favorite Monte Moreville. Upon requesting the bill at the end of four days, Janet discovers that the tariff is more than she can afford, and Monte comes to her rescue by offering to bail her out. In exchange, Janet must pose as his wife to fend off a woman who is threatening a breach of promise suit. After masquerading as Monte's wife, Janet discovers that the socialites are shallow and insecure and, at the end of her ordeal, gladly returns to Dan a wiser and humbled woman.
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