Grandpa Pruitt is smitten with Mrs. Kinneman, an attractive widow from Illinois, while Alison falls for Jerry, a boy next door type from Iowa.

Penney and Pokey secretly leave home as they feel they are preventing Michael's marriage to a fashionable stewardess. A frantic search for the missing girls ensues.

Poignant good-byes are in the offing as the Endicotts tend two birds about to leave the nest: and injured dove – and Allison, who's being groomed for an art scholarship in Paris.