Plot Summary

How can we get rid of our debts in the quickest, but not entirely painless way? If one is celibate, the good old tried and tested recipe is already a given. Marry a rich lady. The girl in question, Edit Zsámbéki, is already available, but there are still a few snags. Our hero, Dr. Géza Gerleszegi Gerle, the supervisor of the Beneficial Ladies' Orphanage in Buda, has a girlfriend, a dancer named Piri Leleményi, who causes such a scandal when she is abandoned that the country and the world will forget her.