Life becomes complicated for Molly when her distant cousin, Jeannine, becomes her house guest for the summer. Jeannine confides to Molly that she is recently married to a young man in the Air Force, and that her father has sent Jeannine to stay with Molly's family in the hope that a wholesome life with a normal small-town family will cure her of what Father considers an ill-advised marriage. Jeannine breaks up the love affair between Molly's best friend, Judy, and Duncan, the bov next door, with whom Molly herself is secretly but hopelessly in love. Jeannine is instrumental in involving Duncan, and Sandy, who is staying with Duncan's family for the summer, in a hit-and-run automobile accident. Sandy's intelligent manner of handling the crisis brought on by Jeannine's lack of principle regarding the accident makes Molly begin to see the people around her in a more realistic perspective. The conflict of character makes the story amusing, but there is an underlying seriousness as Molly wrestles with conflicting loyalties and the dawning knowledge that assuming adult responsibilities is a more complicated business than she had realized. A fine, realistic play, in which all of the characters are in their teens, the adults never appearing on stage.