Coffey gets a small place at the YMCA, and during his stay there he accepts a job previously offered (and refused) as a diaper delivery driver.

Coffey finds this job even more repulsive than his current one but takes it anyway, with a plan in mind: To get back Paulie and impress Vera with his selflessness.

Coffey is obsessed with Vera and begins to get sick from lack of sleep and food and an excessive work schedule.

Vera and Ginger meet outside the courthouse, as she is preparing to leave on a skiing trip with Joe McGlade.

[1] Writing in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said: "Brian Moore's screenplay, written from his novel, is firm in structure and dialogue and an air of reality is given to it by dandy location shooting in Montreal... there is a subtle, important relation between the temperature of [Irving Kershner, the director's] snowy streets and the piteous progression of coldness between the husband and the wife.

"[3] Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote that The Luck of Ginger Coffey "has neither depth of character nor point".