Elinor Schwartz needs a job. Henry Fogeyman needs a secretary. They irritate each other, so he hires her. She joins a local Reform temple. He turns out to be its president. her incredibly Jewish mother keeps arranging for them to meet. The begin to irritate the other less. Then his old girlfriend, Maureen Lefay, returns. Will she steal him from his budding romance with her? Has someone been murdered? Only the cat knows all the answers. Will he rat out the killer, if there is one? The cat?