Very enjoyable film, but boy, what a dark ending if you read between the lines...

Yes, all very nobly Baxter quits his position with Consolidated Life, and Miss Kubelik, no doubt intoxicated both literally and romantically with the New Year's eve "spirits", forgets her pragmatic gold digging ways to take a shot at true love. But what happens after that game of gin rummy?

He is now jobless, with precisely 0% chance of picking up a reference from Sheldrake, and he can forget about turning to the buddy boys for help on that score either - especially after stealing their champagne and pretty much telling them to go screw themselves after all they'd done for him too!

And that brother-in-law ain't going nowhere neither - As soon as he gets wind of the fact that this guy is now an unemployable bum, with getting turfed out of the apartment an absolute certainty to follow, he's going to get another knuckle sandwich and she's going to be allowed nowhere near him.

Then she'll face the further humiliation of returning to her post, having to ferry the new Mrs Sheldrake, the former Miss Olsen, up and down to visit the man she'll undoubtedly be keeping a very close eye on from now - i.e. the spoils of what could have been, shoved in her face every single day.

Then, after a long day, returning home to her spinster existence with her sister, who will she see out on the sidewalk, broken and dragging all his earthly possessions about in a shopping cart, begging for spare change? Yes, that's right, Baxter.

How long does she / can she persevere with the incalculable pain of this lifestyle before she fulfills Dr Dreyfuss' prophecy about trying to end it all again?

Dark stuff...