However, due to a misunderstanding of their intentions, the hotel desk clerk has relocated Jean’s room into one adjoining David’s, separated by locking double doors.

As the night passes, David and Jean find one-another sleepless, converse twice on the phone while lying just feet apart, then agree to go dancing together in the moonlight.

Shortly afterwards, the hotel house detective, put on the scent by the apprehending police, accuses Jean of working some sort of racket with David, and brings both she and Freddie in on various charges.

They are brought before a judge, and David is forced to admit under oath that he is really Paul Knight Somerset, a celebrated painter who disappeared three years back after being imprisoned for producing what had been deemed indecent illustrations for a book (since regarded as a classic).

The court reporters seize upon the story, headlines flash Somerset’s discovery and arrest, and the courtroom for their trial is packed with the social elite.

In furthering his comparison to wine he continued, "RKO's craftsmen have preserved its bouquet intact—and the result is a comedy that is dry and sparkling and bubbles till the last drop."

The film "retained the impudent charm and rippling wit of the very Gallic Mr. Guitry", and others reasons for its success are because Allan Scott and John Van Druten treated the script "as neatly as even Mr. Guitry could demand" and that director Lewis Milestone "has punctuated the scenes deftly and never allowed the effervescence to escape in a single explosive laugh".

They wrote "the picture is excellent entertainment despite the rather whimsical plot", and that "Colman does his usual suave job of acting and Ginger Rogers again proves her deft touch for light comedy".

[6] The Los Angeles Times wrote "it's a stroke of showmanship, teaming the vivacious Miss Rogers with the debonair Ronald Colman".

He felt that "Colman and Rogers don't have a great deal of chemistry, but they have panache and know-how to spare, and Carson, along with reliable Spring Byington, make the most of what they have.