Jim-Bob has a job driving mail to remote homes on the mountain for Ike. He takes mail to Mrs. Randolph who has moved into the old Randolph place. The property is run down. Jim-Bob knocks over the mailbox and steps through a board on the porch. Jim-Bob finds Mrs. Randolph a pretty, slender woman washing her hair on the side of the cabin. She hopes that he has mail from her husband who is overseas serving in the war.
Betsy tells Jim-Bob about her husband Matt a major who flies a B-15 in the war. She lends he a scrapbook of her husband’s full of plane photos and information. As he leaves he backs into her fence knocking it down. He promises to return the next day to repair it.
Elizabeth asks Jim-Bob when he will take her bowling but he is too busy helping Mrs. Randolph.
Jim-Bob helps around Betsy’s cabin. She invites him to dinner. In return he buys her an expensive bottle of perfume which Corabeth raises her concern with his father.
John confronts Jim-Bob in his room as he prepares to go to Betsy’s for dinner. Jim-Bob says that he can handle himself and asks his Daddy if he doesn’t trust him.
At dinner Jim-Bob gives Betsy the perfume She is taken back by the present and says that she can’t accept it. She feels that they have spent too much time together and that she has given him the wrong impression. He makes his excuses and leaves. When he finally arrives home his father confronts him Jim-Bob admits that he had fallen in love with the married woman. John feels that he will have enough pain without giving him further punishment.
Jim-Bob apologizes to Elizabeth and makes a plan to take Elizabeth bowling. Betsy arrives and introduces herself to John and asks to speak to Jim-Bob. He reluctantly tells her that he is behind the barn working on his plane engine. She speaks with Jim-Bob and invites him for a surprise.
They go out to a field for a picnic. Just as Jim-Bob wonders why they are there a biplane lands and takes him on a surprise flight that Betsy has arranged through a friend of her husband’s. On the way home they sing and he says that they are best of friends.
The next day Jim-Bob arrives at Ike’s to take mail up yo Betsy but learns that the Godsey’s already delivered it because a telegram arrived to inform her that her husband had been killed in the line of duty. Jim-Bob goes up to console her.
Jim-Bob arrives at Betsy’s but she sits in a state of shock. He tries to reach through to her and ends up waiting outside for her until she is ready for company.
Betsy leaves the mountain and says goodbye to Jim-Bob outside Ike’s store. She pins a silver wing medallion on his lapel before boarding the bus to the next phase of her life.
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