Mabel Weston falls in love with a dashing young stock broker, to whom her father takes a dislike. She marries him in spite of her father, who tells her to choose between her father and her lover. A constant gambler on the stock market, her husband finally loses his last dollar and commands Mabel to go to her father and borrow some money. She goes, and is refused the loan. She tells her husband that her father will not help them, and he rushes from the room in despair. Meanwhile, the father reconsiders his act and goes to his daughter's home with the money. Just as he is handing it to her a shot is heard and they discover that the husband has committed suicide. Mabel starts out to support herself as a stenographer and leads a very lonely and miserable existence, due to the rude advances made by her employer. A young lawyer in an adjoining office makes her acquaintance by means of a bunch of violets. He watches Mabel constantly from his office window and one day sees her employer forcing his attentions on her. He arrives upon the scene just in time to administer a good thrashing to the employer and persuades Mabel that she need no longer be a woman alone.