
New York writer Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) portrays herself as an ideal housewife in her newspaper column, even though she's single and lives in a cluttered apartment. Publisher Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) convinces her to meet Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan), a Navy veteran who admires her writing. In a convoluted scheme, Elizabeth enlists her friend John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner) for use of his Connecticut mansion, a rented baby ...