Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates’s dinner party, Leslie’s wife Helen brings home a magazine article written by Doris, which sparks Leslie’s memory of his separation from her. During the dinner party, Leslie notices a picture of Doris’ father, which reminds him of her decision to marry Paul without telling him. Soon Doris rekindles a flame in Leslie, who compares her to his plain and prosaic wife. Meanwhile, Helen has inadvertently become drunk and needs to be taken home. When Helen brings up the sensitive issue of Leslie’s past relationship with Doris, the troubled Leslie remembers when Helen selflessly gave him $5,000 to go to medical school. Frustrated, Leslie writes Doris a note instructing her not to accept Helen’s invitation to a dinner she is planning and asks to meet with her privately. Doris invites Leslie to her private studio, where she usually writes in seclusion, only to be intruded upon by Paul, who walks in while the two are kissing. After Leslie admits his love for Doris to Paul, he seeks advice from his friends, who tell him to apprise Helen of the affair. Leslie agrees that Helen should be told, but Paul beats him to it. When the two couples assemble to dinner at the Yateses, Helen tells a moving story of how she and Leslie persevered through the hardest of times, thus leading all present to realize that no mistakes have been made in choosing their present spouses. More on Wikipedia or Mubi
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