Dora Hart is a scheming $18-a-week stenographer who vamps a young realtor to hire her as his secretary on her quest to climb her way up the social ladder. She then leaves him for a crooked real estate agent who has a widow-robbing operation. When next seen she is on a one-year yacht trip with a wealthy man, but breaks their engagement and sets her sights on marry George Davis, an up-and-comer in the banking business. But, first, she has to break up his engagement to pure-heart Sally Newton.