It Happened One Night Scene 31 Summary

  • The campground owner's wife convinces her husband to go check the room to see whether Peter and Ellie have run off in the middle of the night, as predicted.
  • The owner and his wife find Ellie asleep, but they wake her and show her that Peter's car is gone, and his suitcase, too.
  • Ellie says that Peter will be back, but the owner and his wife assume that Ellie's a prostitute and send her away from the hotel in shame. They don't even let her use their phone to call New York; they send her to the sheriff's office instead.