THE STORY: Frances, Marion and Edith are young working girls who share an apartment. But they come to the breaking point when Frances accuses the others of taking advantage of her absence to step out with her boyfriend. Breaking up housekeeping necessitates settling accounts to see “who owes who and how much"; but this proves not so easy; they have borrowed from each other indiscriminately, paid bills for each other. Into this turmoil comes Carol, who thinks accounts are lots of fun and thereby annoys everyone; Dorothy, who insists the way out of their dilemma is to work it out with matches (until they get spilled all over the floor); and Joan, who they discover took a course in bookkeeping. Joan goes to work on the bills, but when she is finished and declares that everyone owes Edith $13.65, the girls can sense there’s something wrong. Humbly, Joan admits she dropped out after the fifth lesson. That leaves them in a nice mess, with Frances all packed and ready to leave. But then a phone call from Frances boyfriend, Russell, makes them forget personal differences, for Russell has several eligible friends at his house—and who’s going to bother about settling an old account when romance is in the offing?
