The Hotel Beauregarde is a typical South coast hotel, peopled by the old and lonely.

In the first of two plays, Table No. 1, Miss Cooper, the manageress, tries to help John Malcolm and his ex-wife, Ann. They have ruined each other but might now find their salvation together.

Table No. 2 introduces Major Pollock, a bogus officer hiding behind a facade of birth and breeding, and Sybil Railton-Bell, another misfit. Once again it is Miss Cooper who gives them the courage to face life.