The Ladies in the Green Hats (1949)

Arlette and her brother are penniless orphans ;as the man is to leave for Africa to work for a long time,the young girl is forced to live with her cousins,four spinsters ,who place virtue over everything. Arlette is a modern girl whereas the four old maids attend the service at the church every morning,they pray before going to bed at 10 P.M. ,never later.But the young cousin discovers that one of these ladies with a green hat (title) wrote a diary in which she revealed she had a love ;it was a doomed relationship .For her part ,the attractive young girl falls for a handsome man,Jacques De Fleurville ,but he's got a fiancee.