Suddenly It's Spring_1947_Paulette Goddard_PARENTE

1941. Before they both enlist in the army and go to their separate respective assignments, married Peter and Mary Morely of Morely & Morely Attorneys-at-Law of New York City, decide, on Mary's suggestion, to divorce after the war, they now seeing each other more as business partners than romantic lovers. Fast forward four years to 1945 and the end of the war. Pete, who has been home for a while and resumed his legal work at their firm, still has divorce on his mind as he wants to marry divorcee Gloria Fay. As such, he, who doesn't want to divulge to Mary that there is another woman in the picture, has the divorce papers all ready for her to sign as soon as she returns home. Pete's urgency in getting Mary to sign is largely the result of Gloria being on his back, she who refuses to associate with him until he is legally available. Mary, who worked as a marital relations expert in the war and is still doing so for the army not yet being decommissioned, has convinced herself because of her work that she wants to make a go of their marriage, she who in turn doesn't want to tell him outright that that is what she wants because of his eagerness for the divorce. When the issue of Gloria comes out in the open and Pete guesses that Mary still wants to stay married, their situation becomes even more complicated. Adding to that complicated triangle is someone making it a square, Jack Lindsay, a relatively new client of Pete's from Washington DC and Pete's new best friend, who helps Mary as much as he can, while still helping Pete, all in an effort to be the man in the picture for Mary when she and Pete are no longer officially a couple.