Jennifer, December, 1946 Summary

Jennifer North and Anne Welles live in a hotel suite together. Jennifer is still seeing Tony Polar the singer and Anne is still with Lyon Burke; neither couple has any immediate marriage plans. Anne is hopeful that Lyon's manuscript will find a publisher soon. Jennifer is worried that Tony will leave for California to do a radio show without marrying her first—and all her plans for future security hinge on being his wife.

Jennifer considers Tony's protective older sister Miriam to be the greatest obstacle to marriage. Miriam runs Tony's life because even though he is a musical genius he is mentally a child, but the public does not know this. Miriam also suspects that Jennifer has been lying about her age. Tony thinks Jennifer is twenty but she is actually twenty-six. She still suffers from insomnia. A friend...