Jack is anxious to get home because some friends are coming over for their weekly jam session.

Jack tells an interviewer how he met Mary Livingstone years before when she worked at The May Co.

Jack loses to Rochester at gin rummy and has to do Rochester's chores for the day while Rochester plays golf. Jack goes to the market to buy groceries for Christmas dinner.

Jack, awakened by a phone call at 4 a.m., cannot get back to sleep. After he decides to go for an early morning walk, he comes home exhausted, but Mary comes over and reminds him that they were to go shopping for a new suit for Jack.