A gentlemanly medical student falls hopelessly in love with a cockney teashop waitress. However, when the affair begins to jeopardise his career, he tries to extricate himself from the relationship - but she turns increasingly vindictive. Drama, based on Somerset Maugham's classic novel, with Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee and Kay Johnson.

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.