She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. In spite of that, they are married within days. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. Milton Lumky, the paper salesman in whose area they live, is uneasy about their future. And then the odd compulsions and instabilities start to interfere with their plans.