.Tale of an elderly man whose life has been dull and commonplace until one day he receives $10,000 in cash, his endowment insurance policy has matured. A bachelor, Toby lives in a boarding house where most of the other boarders immediately have all kinds of plans as to how Toby can spend or invest his small fortune. All that is except Millie, a gracious young lady, who wants Toby to spend the money having fun.

Miss Emmie meets up with the wrong sort of man.

A treasure hunt in Borneo leaves an explorer with a "three day death" curse that follows him to London and an exciting climax.

The "little woman" has an intense desire to own a new washing machine, which creates a domestic crisis.

Ashley Cummings means to collect his wife's insurance policy by proving her legally dead.

When a marriage of ten years dissolves slowly and without obvious reason, how can it be made successful again?