Giddy is a widowed housewife and the mother of one son. Her husband Jack was a failure in many things, from business to monogamy. One day as Giddy visits her father (a man who never liked Jack until it was almost too late) to retrieve money her husband left to another woman, she recalls the past.  Giddy sits in the Public Garden and remembers the horrors of her marriage to Jack. Specifically, her encounters with Paula Blodgett, the woman Jack was cheating on Giddy with. One such encounter happened in those very gardens as Jack kissed a cop just to make Paula laugh. Giddy then moves on to a luncheon they attended at Paula’s home with her husband Ned. Giddy recalls the chaos getting ready for the afternoon—Jack hit his head moments before their departure and had bled everywhere.  At the event, Jack was less than attentive as he humiliated Giddy in front of his peers. She is brought back further into their fraught past. Giddy had never traveled with Jack for work, despite her desire to, due to a myriad of loose and suspicious reasons on Jack’s part. By the end of the event, Bill Dooling had made subtle advances towards Giddy.  The final memory that Giddy recalls is a fight with Jack. His business had just failed, and Paula had left him, two things he unfairly blamed on Giddy. Soon she found him dead, most likely from suicide, in their bed. Jack left money to Paula in his will, and after the funeral, Paula never spoke to Giddy again.