This is a tender account of a rueful romance. The boy has invited to his hovel for dinner a girl he met at a concert. In the interim he has romanticized her as another Venus, and not to appear gauche, he has asked his man-about-town friend to coach him. When the girls arrive, she is a very common sort, who speaks in shop-worn clichés. And his hi-fi set doesn’t impress her either. But the boy perseveres. He plays a romantic number and then tries to emulate his friend by romancing the girl. But in the midst of tenderness he is awkward to the point of clumsiness, and destroys the mood. She slaps him for trying to kiss her forcibly. She departs, and he returns to his record, now badly scratched, and the curtain descends on a broken love song.
