The screenplay, co-written by director Frank Capra (uncredited) and Robert Riskin, was based on an August 1933Cosmopolitanmagazine story titled "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams.He inexplicably expressed his sympathy: "I""m sorry your boyfriend got killed."Later after recovering and as she left the hospital, Yvonne told Alice that there were no little boys on her hospital floor, and there was no children""s ward.The drunk and grizzled old cemetery caretaker Martin (Bob Larkin) complained about the conditions he found at Jason""s gravesite.Their miscommunication and suspicious distrust reaches its peak when the two proud individuals mutually object to each other""s stories.