Incensed at Robert Prandor's escapades, his father tells him to leave home and return only when he has earned $100. This will move the elder man to make him a partner. The boy is soon forced by necessity to take a place as waiter. Here he catches the eye of Wyman, who hires him as butler. Thrya, his daughter, is the chilliest thing Prandor ever met. When she decides to marry him he gets frightened and tries to escape, but tumbles down stairs and is severely injured. Prandor immediately falls in love with Elsie Forbes, his nurse. Thrya is using her supposed engagement to Prandor as a cloak to cover her real affection for another man, opposed by her father. An entanglement of forged checks worries Wyman, and his secretary arrests young Prandor. Elsie Forbes is arrested also. While Prandor is making the secretary confess to the forgeries, his father, long a friend of Wyman, enters and the situation is happily solved, the final obstacle being removed when word comes that Thrya has eloped with the other man.
—Moving Picture World synopsis