Maude Wallace

After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.