Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

Francis is desperate. Her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved “Moondoggy” is home from College.