Ginnie is a teenage girl living in New York City in the 1940s. She plays tennis with a friend from school, Selena, who is rich but refuses to pay her half of the cab fare every week when they play. Finally, Ginnie demands the money. Serena makes a big show of trying to get out of paying, but she acquiesces and decides to ask her “sick” mother. Ginnie waits in Selena’s living room for the money, where she meets Selena’s brother, Franklin, who used to work for an airplane company but quit, and Eric, his friend, who is in a bad mood because the writer he used to live with left without so much as a “thank you.” Ginnie enjoys herself so much with the two boys that she lets Selena keep the money. She brings home the sandwich Franklin offered her and decides to keep it for a while as a memento of her afternoon.