Thelma Shaw--Teddy to her friends--comes from a working-class Bronx background and still lives in the Bronx in cramped quarters with her parents, her sister, and her sister's family. She works in the oppressive steno pool in a New York office, and is a voracious reader in her spare time to better herself. She hopes to marry someone with her same interest in reading, unlike the uncouth young men she usually meets, such as Emil Beatty. Because she hates her boss, she is glad for a two-week vacation in Camp Kare-Free in the Catskills, which is billed as an outdoor retreat. Once there, she is surprised to fall for Chick Kirkland, and he for her, as their initial encounters were antagonistic. Chick is a recent law-school graduate working at the camp, as he can't find work as a lawyer. A Teddy/ Chick happy ending is threatened by their perception of what a relationship between them with their respective current situations would be like, and others at the camp who may pick up the romantic pieces in the wrong way in the aftermath.
—Huggo