Love Affair

Fun-seeking heiress Carol Owen goes to Gilligan's flying school, where she is given her first airplane ride by pilot Jim Leonard. Intrigued by Jim's straightforward manner, Carol spends more time with him and learns that he is giving up his job to work on his invention, a plane motor that will greatly benefit the aviation industry. Jim's only other interest is his younger sister Linda Lee, whom he believes to be innocent and well-meaning. Linda Lee is actually a gold digger of easy virtue who is being kept in a fancy apartment by wealthy broker Bruce Hardy. Linda Lee's true love, however, is Georgie Keeler, a slick Broadway producer, to whom she gives any money she gets from Hardy. Hardy is also Carol's business manager and is in love with her. He has repeatedly asked her to marry him, but she always turns him down, telling him that she will marry only when she is no longer wealthy. Inspired by her growing love for Jim, Carol induces Hardy to invest in Jim's motor company. Jim soon reciprocates Carol's feelings and spends more time with her than at his work. Jim and Carol spend the night together, and the next morning, Jim proposes to her. Realizing that she is preventing him from fulfilling his ambitions, Carol refuses, and Jim then vows to become successful for her sake. Soon after, Hardy reveals to Carol that her father left her nothing and that she has been living off Hardy's money. Carol is devastated but is still determined to help Jim, and so agrees to marry Hardy for his money. Hardy gives Linda Lee a check for $10,000 and tells her that their relationship is over. Meanwhile, Jim reads a newspaper announcement of Carol and Hardy's engagement and bitterly refuses any more of Hardy's financing. Linda Lee, hoping to get more money from Hardy, tells Jim that the older man seduced her and abandoned her despite promises of marriage. Jim rushes to Hardy's home and there meets Carol, who has decided that she cannot marry Hardy and has come to tell him so. Misinterpreting the reason for Jim's visit, Carol believes that he is going to inform Hardy about their affair. She tells Hardy herself, and then Jim reveals the real reason he is there. Hardy shows Jim the check he gave to Linda Lee, which she has endorsed to Georgie, and, disillusioned by his sister's deceipt and Carol's brash words, Jim leaves. Carol is overwhelmed by this turn of events and goes to the flying school, where she intends to make her first and last solo flight. She leaves a suicide note for Gilligan, but as she is about to take off, Jim, who has realized that he does love her, arrives and saves her.