When Sylvia was a student, she had a short affair with a fellow student. He tried to immediately drag her into bed, but the girl refused him. Then he declared in front of everyone that Sylvia Walker was afraid of intimacy with a man and was generally frigid and insensitive as a tree stump. Trying to assert herself among her peers, she met a man in a nightclub and spent the night with him. The day she realized she was carrying his child inside her was terrible. But the baby died, and Sylvia, taught by bitter experience, no longer sought adventure. Several years passed, and chance brought her to this again...