Walking to a date in a driving downpour, Jackie hurries blindly around a corner and bumps into a stranger, knocking them both down. With her dress a mess from the puddle they landed in, she has to go home and change. She arrives an hour late to see her date has already found a new girl. Then she sees the stranger she bumped into and discovers the girl her date has found is the girlfriend of the stranger. To make their dates jealous, he pretends to be Jackie's boyfriend.
Jody is called "Butterfly" because she's always flitting gaily from one blossoming romance to another. She repeats this pattern with Lester, but later learns that he is getting married. During the long and lonely winter, she realizes how much she misses him.