A series of conversational sketches presents interviews with various young American women and one man, each chapter centering on a different social type—debutante, left-over girl, gym girl, heroine, clubwoman, cynic, chaperon, engaged woman, and bride. The author blends light social observation, humor, and personal reflection to examine manners, courtship rituals, shifting expectations of independence, and the physical presence of women in public life. Photographic illustrations accompany the texts, reinforcing portrait-like studies of character and social circumstance.