 If Mary Haines can pretend ignorance of her husband s affair with Crystal Allen, who sells perfume at a department store, she has a good chance of saving her marriage. But has she no pride? The women in her circle of friends soon have her packing for Reno. On the train, Mary meets the Countess DeLave, trading in her fourth husband and exclaiming "l amour, l amour." Everyone is staying at the same dude ranch outside Reno that is run by a no-nonsense woman. The woman who is about to marry the husband of Mary s cousin Sylvia, who first spread the gossip about Mary s husband s affair, tells Mary to forget her pride and the divorce.