An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time.

Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.

Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.

A prominent chanteuse on a world tour meets a young fellow European in Singapore, a soldier of fortune who becomes obsessed with listening to her voice on a recording.

A young husband, annoyed by his stepmother, divorces and marries a young girl whose father is a widower. When the two new spouses return from their honeymoon, the stepfather has married his son-in-law's first wife.

A young woman whose family doesn't want her to marry is taken by her lover to a seance, where before the eyes of her parents she is conjured away. Her man awaits on the other side.

A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune.

Primerose loves her childhood friend, Pierre, but this one, ruined, refuses her love. Desperate, Primerose enters the convent, but soon the order is dissolved and Pierre, who finds his young friend, finally lets his heart speak...

Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.