In a London street full of curtain-twitchers, the chatter is rife when someone buys a cake! Who might be coming to luncheon? Well, quickly we discover that “Dr. Brown” (Franchot Tone) is coming to visit “Phoebe” (Katharine Hepburn). What he delivers, though, isn’t quite what she expects and off to the Napoleonic wars he goes. A decade later, he returns but seems disappointed that she, too, has aged. She’s crestfallen so decides to spruce herself up a bit and see if she can’t re-engage his attentions. Quite cunningly, though, she decides to adopt a sort of alias, and is introduced by the maid “P...