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Peg and Nettie are a little embarrassed by their room mate, Mary, especially after Eleanor Joyce, the oracle of the Art School, labels her bourgeois. They have a particular objection to her long hair, but are taken aback when Stephen Vardis, Eleanor's successful artist cousin, waxes lyrical about her hair, announces his dislike of shingled hair, and asks to paint her portrait. As Stephen spends more and more time with Mary they expect an engagement, but Mary has another surprise for them.

Jane and Bob Stack run a business taking people out fishing, but it is Jane who does all the work, while Bob fishes. One evening he asks her, as usual, to pick him up in the dinghy at midnight, before the tide covers the rocks. Bob cannot swim and Jane realises that, if she does not set the alarm, she will be free.