Two strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an imaginary honeymoon with their winnings.

As David Grant passes neighbor Jean Newton on the street in Greenwich Village, he impulsively wishes her good luck. Although she doesn't know him, she intuitively asks him to become her partner in an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. David agrees on the condition that she go on a world tour with him if they win the $150,000 prize as an "experiment." She reluctantly agrees over the initial objections of her oafish fiancé Fred, who agrees to hold the ticket. When it turns out that they have drawn a horse in the race, Fred urges them to sell the ticket for the $12,000 asking price, but they turn him down. Although their horse loses, Jean is furious to learn that Fred had sold her half of the ticket. Even though David doesn't know about it, she feels obligated to share the $6000 with him. After he buys her a car with her half, she agrees to a scaled-down version of their tour to Niagara Falls, where they register as brother and sister. What Jean doesn't know is that David is actually a famous painter living under an assumed name after serving three years in prison.—duke1029@aol.com

Jean Newton works as a clerk in her Aunt Lucy's Greenwich Village bookstore. As Jean walks down the street on her way to make a delivery of books, a passerby, a complete stranger, says to her, "Good luck." Coming into a windfall of sorts by the end of the delivery having nothing to do directly with the delivery itself, Jean begins to believe that the man that wished her good luck *is* her good luck charm. Tracking him down near the bookstore, she is able to convince him, struggling caricature artist David Grant, to go half with her in a sweepstakes ticket, she in the process mentioning that if they win, she plans to use her half winnings to marry her childhood sweetheart, insurance salesman Freddie Harper, and move with him to Poughkeepsie. Hearing her story and further learning that she and Freddie will not go on a honeymoon in not having the money, David, proposing it as a social experiment but really not wanting to see Jean caught in domesticity for the rest of her life without having experienced some of the world, counters that he will use his half for them to go on a honeymoon, the them being him and her purely traveling platonically as mock brother and sister, and not her and Freddie. Beyond Jean's initial outrage and Freddie's continually inward outrage at David's proposal, that social experiment takes on a life of its own in its twists and turns, the experiment which ends up being more complicated due to David's hidden background which is the reason he made the proposal.—Huggo