An unmarried shop girl is shocked to discover a baby abandoned on her doorstep and decides to adopt the helpless foundling. However, her charitable act leads to fevered speculation as local gossips come to the conclusion that she must be the child's real mother. Comedy, starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Charles Coburn.

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.