Grizelda Harvey

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

전쟁의 상처가 채 가시지 않은 때, 술집에서 실수로 사람을 죽이고 경찰에 쫓기던 빌이 독신간호원 제인의 아파트에 뛰어든다. 둘 다 외로웠던 이들은 서로 정이 들어 잠시 즐겁게 지내지만 빌의 충동적이고 난폭한 행동은 제인을 실망시킨다. 새 출발을 약속한 빌은 병원의 트럭운전사로 취직하여 둘은 앞날을 약속하는데 이 때 술집사건을 목격한 해리가 빌을 협박한다. 빌은 그를 칼로 찔러 다시 범죄를 저지른다. 빌은 제인의 권유에 따라 자수하고 새로운 삶을 설계한다.

Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?