Bitterly disappointed in her husband's financial failures, genteel matriarch Deborah Banning travels to visit her friends on the Ponderosa, hoping to turn her family's fortunes around by marrying her only daughter off to a Cartwright son.
The wife and daughter of Ben's friend arrive at the Cartwrights for a visit. While there, the wife tries to arrange a marriage between Little Joe and her daughter. The only problem is the daughter doesn't really love Little Joe.