Synopsis: Dr. William Harford and his wife Alice have been in a loving marriage for a years. But after a party one night he taunts her by discussing the various times his beautiful female patients have flirted with him. She however reveals to him a steamy but unfulfilled encounter she had with a naval officer sometime ago, causing him grief. He soon can't get the images of her and the officer making love out of his mind and discovers a variety of overwhelming and frightening temptations which present themselves during his night-time rounds around New York City.