Sorority sister Kay Parker is engaged to medical student John Gregory, but resists marrying him so that he can finish his degree. After months of diligent study, Kay and John impulsively marry and rent a bungalow. When Kay's stepmother cuts off her allowance, John is forced to work several jobs, and as a result, his studies begin to suffer. To relieve John's burden, Kay takes on work in addition to her job singing in a nightclub. Despite these hardships, their marriage thrives, but their friends, Jennifer and Slats Warwick, another married couple who moves in with them, fight constantly. When Kay discovers that she is pregnant, she keeps it a secret from John, but loses her job at the nightclub and asks John's professor, Dr. Hewitt, if John can take some time off from school. Dr. Hewitt adamantly opposes this, because he has won a research grant and intends to take John, his star pupil, to Europe with him. Kay decides to stay with her stepmother for a year and have her child without John's knowledge, but after she leaves him a goodbye note, she and Slats are called away to spend the evening with their pregnant friend Susie Blair while her husband is at work. Susie goes into labor and her child is delivered by Doc, a gas station owner who had to give up his medical studies when his wife became pregnant. When Kay returns home, John has read her note and intends to leave college to save their marriage. Dr. Hewitt, however, learns that Kay is pregnant, and offers to help support them with a scholarship while John continues his studies.