Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.